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Augustus Charles Gregory
1819–1905
Best known as one of the great early explorers of Australia, he mapped vast stretches of the continent and helped shape colonial Queensland through both surveying and public service.
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Journals of Australian Explorations
by Augustus Charles Gregory, Francis Thomas Gregory
About the author
Born in Nottinghamshire, England, on August 1, 1819, he moved with his family to Western Australia as a child. He grew into a skilled surveyor and became famous for leading major expeditions across northern and western Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, earning a reputation for careful planning and steady leadership.
Gregory later became the first Surveyor-General of Queensland, a role that placed him at the center of the colony’s development. He also served in public life as a member of the Queensland Legislative Council, and over time he was widely honored for his contributions to exploration, mapping, and administration.
He died in Brisbane on June 25, 1905. Today he is remembered as an explorer whose journeys added greatly to European knowledge of inland and northern Australia, and as a public servant who helped lay administrative foundations in Queensland.