Edmund Kennedy

Edmund Besley Court Kennedy ( 5 September 1818 *, † December 1848 ) was an Australian explorer. He was a close associate of Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy was scouting from the hinterland of Queensland and New South Wales. He explored among others the Thomson River, the Barcoo River, Cooper Creek and the Cape York Peninsula.

Kennedy was born in 1818 on the Channel Island of Guernsey. In 1840 he emigrated to New South Wales (Australia) and was surveyor. He was killed in December 1848 on the Cape York Peninsula in an attack of the Aborigines on his scouting party.

According to him, the Australian Edmund Kennedy National Park is named.

Expeditions

First expedition

Edmund Kennedy was selected in 1845 by Thomas Mitchell for an expedition to North Queensland. In November, she left New South Wales to find a land route to the Gulf of Carpentaria. This goal is not reached, the expedition though, but they discovered a river, which they christened " Victoria Stream". In January 1847 she returned to Sydney.

Second expedition

Last expedition

In his last expedition Kennedy was again sent to the north of Australia to find a cheap inland route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Sydney. On April 29, 1848 Edmund Kennedy and his crew left the port of Sydney in the barque Tam O ' Shanter, together with the HMS Rattlesnake. In North Queensland Kennedy, however, was killed near Cape York locals.