Person
Creaghe, Emily Caroline (1860 - 1944)
- Born
- 1 November 1860
Bay of Bengal, India - Died
- 11 November 1944
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Explorer
- Alternative Names
- Barnett, Emily Caroline (maiden name)
Summary
Caroline Creahge (née Barnett) migrated to Australia in 1876 and left for Thursday Island in 1882. She joined Ernest Favenc's party, along with her husband Harry Creaghe, to explore a region in the Northern Territory bounded by Nicholson River, Powells Creek and the Macarthur River. The party arrived at Normanton by sea in January 1883. Favenc returned to Sydney with his sick wife while Caroline rode with four other men to Carl Creek station and headed back to Gregory Downs station where Favenc was waiting. The party set out westwards in April and reached Powells Creek in May. She headed back to Port Darwin with Harry and left for Sydney in August. From January 1883, Caroloine kept a detailed diary that recorded descriptions of the trip including topography, vegetation, observations of frontier life, and commentary on white and Aboriginal relations.
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Emily Caroline Creaghe - Records, 1882 - 1932, ML MSS 2982; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Maff, J. M. Winsome, 'Barnett, Emily Caroline (1860-1944), explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), p. 119. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnett-emily-caroline-9439. Details
Journal Articles
- Stewart, Jean, 'Emily Caroline Creaghe 1860-1944, Explorer', Queensland Historical Journal, 20 (8) (2008), 391-401. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org/. Details
- 'Creaghe, Emily Caroline (1860 - 1944)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469636. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 September 2025
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