Person

Aplin, Christopher D'Oyly Hale (1819 - 1875)

Born
1819
Cawnpore, India
Died
9 September 1875
Somerset, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

Christopher Aplin was the first Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland 1868-1869. Earlier he was employed by the Geological Survey of Victoria 1856-1868.

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Chronology

1840
Life event - Arrived in Australia (Victoria)
1845
Life event - Moved to Port Essington in the Northern Territory
1846? - ?
Career position - Collector of Customs and Surveyor-General in Borneo
1856 - 1868
Career position - Geological Survey of Victoria [under Alfred Selwyn]
1868 - 1869
Career position - First Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland
c. 1871 - c. 1874
Career position - Geologist at a sugar plantation in Maryborough, Queensland
1874 - 1875
Career position - Police Magistrate at Somerset

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Archival resources

Queensland Museum Library

  • Christopher D'Oyly Hale Aplin - Records, 1868 - 1869; Queensland Museum Library. Details

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Journal Articles

  • Dunn, E. J.; and Mahony, D. J., 'Biographical Sketch of the Founders of the Geological Survey of Victoria', Bulletins of The Geological Survey of Victoria, 23 (1910), 48. Details
  • Turnbull, Paul, 'Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Pages 75. Details
  • Woods, J. T., 'C. D'Oyly H. Aplin, First Government Geologist for the Southern District of Queensland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 14 (4) (1964), 107-114. Details

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See also

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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