Frank Hann

Frank Hugh Hann (* October 19, 1846 in Wiltshire, England; † August 23, 1921 in Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ) was a British -born explorer and ranchers in Australia.

Early years

Frank was the son of Joseph Hann and his wife Elizabeth, née Sharpe. His parents, he and his older brother William Hann emigrated in 1851 from the Wiltshire area of ​​the western ports in Victroria. 1862 was his father in the newly explored area of the Burdekin River in Queensland, where he led the cattle stations Bluff Downs, Maryvale and Lolworth built with Richard Daintree and other investors from Melbourne. After the great flood in January 1864 in the area of the Burdekin River livelihoods his father was destroyed.

Vocational years

Frank Hann managed Lolworth the station from 1865 until 1870. As the livestock industry in 1875 recovered, he took over the Lawn Hill Station in the Gulf Country. According to economic difficulties, he left in 1894 these cattle station and went to Western Australia. There, he was not successful in search of suitable land, discovered the Lake Disappointment and returned again in 1897 to Queensland, where he took part in the Western Kimberley on Gold Rush at Mount Broome.

Expeditionensjahre

In the winter of 1898 Frank Hann penetrated the King Leopold Ranges, which expired at the time as insurmountable. He discovered and named the Charnley and Isdell River. He discovered in 1898 the 118 km long Adcock River, a tributary of the Fitzroy River, which he named after Charles and William Adcock, who had friendly support him.

Hann found suitable land for cattle farming and took over 2590 km ² of land, but had no financial means to build a livestock and could not apply it. Hann lived after four years in Perth. He was then commissioned by the Government of Western Australia to explore its desert area. In 1903, he found a way from Laverton to Warburton Ranges to the on the border with South Australia. In 1907 he was involved in the gold rush at Queen Victoria Springs.

Last years

Since an accident in 1918 Hann was dependent on walking aids. He returned to Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth, back, where he died in 1921.

In his last years he corresponded with Daisy Bates, with whom he shared the view that the government should establish a social system for the Aborigines.

Honors

The discovered in 1898 by Frank Hann and named by him Philips River in Western Australia was renamed in 1900 in Hann River, a tributary of the Fitzroy River. The Frank Hann National Park was established in 1970 named after Frank Hann, who crossed this area in 1901.