Person

Stokes, John Lort (1812 - 1885)

Born
1812
Died
11 June 1885
England
Occupation
Explorer and Hydrographer

Summary

John Lort Stokes worked for 18 years on board the "Beagle" (mostly as a surveyor and as Commander) which surveyed Australian waters from 1837. On his return to England he wrote a two volume study entitled Discoveries in Australia (London, 1846).

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • John Lort Stokes - Records, 1848 - 1853; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Hordern, M., Mariners Are Warned! John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia, 1837-43 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press at Miegunyah Press, 1989), 404 pp. Details
  • Ingleton, G. C., Charting a Continent; a brief memoir on the history of marine exploration and hydrographical surveying in Australian waters, from the discoveries of Captain James Cook to the war activities of the Royal Australian Navy (Sydney: 1944). Details
  • Stokes, J. Lort, Discoveries in Australia: with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Navy: also, a narrative of captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea, 2 vols (London: T. and W. Boone, 1846). Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Andrews, E.C., 'The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, lxxvi (1942), 96-128. Details
  • Powell, Alan, 'Explorer-surveyors of the Australian north coast II. Part 2: John Lort Stokes and the crew of the Beagle', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 66 (1981), 225-236. Details

Resources

See also

  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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