- Charles Gould (geologist)
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Charles Gould was the first Geological Surveyor of Tasmania 1859-69.
He was born on the 4th June 1834 in England [1] He conducted three expeditions into Western Tasmania in the 1860's.
He named many of the mountains on the West Coast Range.[2]
He also worked as a consultant geologist and land surveyor in Tasmania, the Bass Strait Islands and in New South Wales. He left Australia in late 1873 and he died on the 15th April 1893 in Montevideo, Uruguay
See also
References
- ^ Gould, Charles - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
- ^ footnote 21 on page 172 of Binks, C.J. (1980). Explorers of Western Tasmania. Launceston: Mary Fisher Bookshop. ISBN 0-908291-16-7.
Further reading
- Blainey, Geoffrey (2000). The Peaks of Lyell (6th ed. ed.). Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing. ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
- Stoddart, D.Michael, ed (1993). Walk to the West. Hobart: The Royal Society of Tasmania. ISBN 0-9598679-9-6.
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