William Gosse (explorer)

William Christie Gosse ( born December 11, 1842 in Hoddesdon, England; † August 12, 1881 in Adelaide, Australia ) was a British- Australian naturalist and explorer. He discovered and named on an expedition trip to Ayers Rock / Uluru.

Private life

William Christie Gosse was the second son of William Gosse, a practicing physician, and his wife Agnes, née Grant. His father was the cousin of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse ( 1850-1888 ). William Gosse immigrated and came in 1850 with his family and his children in Adelaide.

1868 married William Gosse Chrisie Gertrude Ritchie, who died a year later. In 1874 he married Agnes Hay, with whom he had three children together. William Goose 1859 took a job in land surveying and was sent for trignonometrische measurements in the north of Australia.

Researchers life

1872 gave him the government of South Australia to perform the job an expedition which had the task of finding a way through Central Australia to Perth. The eminent explorers Egerton Warburton also competed as a leader on this expedition, which was rejected because of his age of 58 years. Then Thomas Elder Warburton commissioned an expedition with the same goal to pursue. The rival groups expedition started in April 1873 from their expedition commissioned by the Alice Springs station.

The expedition of gutter consisted of five whites ( including his brother Henry), three Afghans and an Aboriginal. They had camels and horses and provisions for eight months. The expedition turned westward four months. On July 19, he opened a camp at Ayers Rock, which he achieved the first white man. On September 17, Gosse was reversed due to lack of water. His expedition was not successful. Gosse mapped an area of ​​about 160,000 km ², and thus provided the basis for the successful expedition of John Forrest in 1874 on the same route from the East to the West. In 1875 he was appointed deputy surveyor of South Australia.