Person

Winnecke, Charles George Alexander (1857 - 1902)

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Born
18 November 1857
Norwood, South Australia, Australia
Died
10 September 1902
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Explorer, Naturalist and Botanist

Summary

Charles Winnecke was an experienced surveyor of inland Australia who learned the skills of trigonometric surveying after joining the South Australian survey department in 1873. Many of his surveys in the arid centre of Australia and arduous in nature. In 1877 led the North Eastern Exploring Expedition to survey the border between South Australia and Queensland. Winnecke left the survey department in 1882 to become a private surveyor. In 1894 he was selected as leader of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition. Winnecke was an enthusiastic collector of natural history specimens and anthropological material. Botanical specimens he sent to Ferdinand von Mueller, Victorian Government Botanist, these now being in the National Herbarium of Victoria. Winnecke had considerable collections of birds (which he stuffed himself), reptiles, insects and Aboriginal artefacts.

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Chronology

1873 - 1882
Career position - Surveyor, South Australia Surveyor General's Office
1882
Career event - Became a private surveyor
1885 - 1902
Award - Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, London
May 1894 - August 1894
Career position - Leader, Horn Scientifc Exploring Expedition

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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

  • Baldwin Spencer - Records, 1880 - 1929, ML MSS 29; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

State Records of South Australia

  • Charles George Alexander Winnecke - Records, 1877 - 1881, GRG 35/656; State Records of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Strong, Bruce W., Charles George Alexander Winnecke (1855 [sic] - 1902) ([Deniliquin, N.S.W.]: Deniliquin Newspapers Pty Ltd, 2014), 164 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Mr C. Winnecke's last exploration in the Northern Territory, South Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography, 6 (10) (1884), 566-9. Details
  • C., C., 'Obituary: Charles George Alexander Winnecke', Geographical journal, 20 (6) (1902), 661-2. Details

Parliamentary papers

  • Winnecke, C., Journal, etc., of the Horn Scientific Exploring Expedition to Central Australia, 1894 (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1896), 32 pp. Details

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See also

  • Carment, David et al ed., Northern Territory dictionary of biography (Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press, 2008), 655 pp. Details

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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