William Tietkens
William Harry Tietkens ( born August 30, 1844 in Islington, London, England; † April 19, 1933 in Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia) was a British explorer and prospector in Australia.
Life
He was the son of William Henry Tietkens, a chemist, and his wife Emily, née Dover. To form he was at Christ Hospital until June 1859., He left England and arrived in September 1859 in Adelaide.
William Tietkens worked intermittently for years on the railroad and as agricultural workers. He was also for months in search of gold and silver in Gippsland near the Barrier Ranges.
On 14 June 1882 he married Mary Ann Lon, with whom he had a daughter.
Explorer
In 1865, William Tietkens spent two months with the Australian explorer Ernest Giles on the upper Darling River.
Another expedition led him unknown land beyond the Darling Downs to Lake Cobham Lake and Yantara. In the course of this exploration, he won the recognition that expeditions and European settlements acts of violent conquest by the British are.
In 1873 he was the deputy of Ernest Giles during the expedition, which was to lead South Australia to the west coast of the Australian continent. Only in 1875 came to the second expedition of Giles and him there.
In 1887 he went to England. Commissioned by Louis Leisler of Glasgow, whom he had met there, he undertook from 1878 to 1880 an unsuccessful attempt of agricultural land at Maralinga in South Australia to find. According to him, he named the Leisler Hills.
In 1886, he was unemployed and then lectured at a school that trained explorers. In March 1889 he presented in Alice Springs together a new expedition and arrived in July at Charlotte Waters. On this expedition discovered the Lake MacDonald, Mount Rennie, the Kintore Range and Cleland Hills. He was the first man ( the Olgas ) photographed the Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta, the. Tiekens collected on this expedition also plants, including seven new species.
From 1891 until his retirement in 1909 he was employed by the New South Wales Department of Lands. He then lived in Eastwood and died in 1933 in Lithgow.
Importance
William Tietkens had a leading role in the development of three major expeditions in Australia. His performance as the discoverer was mainly due to the fact that he initiated the further exploration between the expedition routes. He has published numerous geographical and scientific articles. Tietkens wrote his autobiography ' Experiences in the life of an Australian explorer in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1919.