Paweł Strzelecki

Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, even Paul Edmund Strzelecki Count ( born July 20, 1797 in Gluszyna at Posen; † October 6, 1873 in London) was a Polish scientist and explorer.

Life

Paul Edmund Strzelecki, the third child of Franciszek Strzelecki who left school without a degree, served as a yearling in the Prussian army, and made after extensive travels to North and South America and India. He visited Java, parts of China, the East Indies and Egypt. In 1840 he discovered the area south of the Snowy Mountains in Australia, which he named Gippsland. The highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, he named after Tadeusz Kościuszko. In the Australian Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains him a statue was erected in honor. Strzelecki explored the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and in the years 1841 and 1842 Tasmania, which was then called Van Diemen 's Land. On 2 June 1853 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1873 he died in London of liver cancer and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. 1972 named to the Strzelecki National Park on the belonging to Tasmania Flinders Island Iceland after him.

Works

• Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land, London 1845.