Frank Wittenoom

Frank Wittenoom

Francis ("Frank") Frederick Burdett Wittenoom [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120748b.htm Biography of Wittenoom, Frederick Francis Burdett (1855 - 1939)] Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition,Copyright 2006, ISSN 1833-7538, published by Australian National University] (born December 1855 in York, Western Australia - died September 1939 in Perth, Western Australia) was an explorer and pastoralist in Western Australia. The town of Wittenoom, Western Australia was named after him by Lang Hancock with whom he shared a nearby pastoral lease.

Wittenoom was the first European to explore much of the Murchison, Gascoyne and Pilbara areas of the north-west of Western Australia.

He was the grandson of John Burdett Wittenoom one of the first chaplains in the Swan River Colony.

ee also

*Wittenoom disambiguation page

External links

* [http://www.hesperianpress.com/booklist/title_information/a_varied_verastile.htm Varied and versatile ] at www.hesperianpress.com

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