Expedition truck log Endeavour Mining Company NL expedition to Petermann and Tomkinson Ranges 1930 - 1931 Michael Terry leader

Archive Collections / Michael Terry / Series AA 333/05 / Expedition truck log Endeavour Mining Company NL expedition to Petermann and Tomkinson Ranges 1930 - 1931 Michael Terry leader

Carbon copy typescript filed in manila folder with string ties. Horseshoe Bend 17 July 1930 combined truck and camel train to Oodnadatta 5 January 1931. Expedition comprising M Terry, W Bird, L Bailey, Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62). [This is probably a 'clean' copy of the diary AA 333/5/14 and AA 333/5/15]. Each daily entry includes camp number (eg C22) and a weather report.


  • 17 July Rodgers (Farmers Union), Syd Staine, Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62), camels, Jimmy Stokes, Poona Well, Reed, Davis Crossing, Finke River, Chambers Pillar, Bird, Williams, Goyder Springs, Pulcurra Well, Murraturra, Bailey, sandalwood, Mt Connor, Kernot Range, Wilba, Basedow Ranges, native well, Johnnie Frances, Rawson, Overi, Ayers Rock (now known as Uluru), Jimmy Stokes (Australian Aboriginal man), Liddle, local herbage listed 28 July, encouraged by discovery that sandhills are short, Maggie Spring

  • 1 August captured emu chicks as pets at Ayers Rock (now known as Uluru), Gosse, Mt Olga, Mackays landing ground, found camera lost by Morrison of the Argus, Dr Herbert Basedow (AA 22), Mt McCulloch, Bloods Range, Armstrong River, Petermann Ranges, Piltadommya, Irving River, Mt Unapproachable, rock engraving "J Tregurtha 1896, N Davey 1926, WL 7.1927, H Brown 1926, H Oliffe 1926" Myers Rock, Thornycroft, Moth aeroplane, Mt Phillips, Italian bees, wheat seed and grinding stones, Bird, Williams, Bloods Range, galena, chloride of lead, silver, Jervois Range, Mt Kikinuana, malley hen, Docker River, Wooroorinna, Scherin Mural Crescent, Pottoyu Hills, quondongs, iron, Mt Phillips, Irving River

  • 1 September 547 miles from Horseshoe Bend, Kulta-Kood-yarra, Kulta-peela rockhole, Kool-angaka, McKay, George expedition, skeletal remains, Duffield Rocks, Mt Mungorana, Piltadinnya, 8 September pyrities, silver, diorite dykes, native well, Sir J Forrest, Mt Enangana, Katamala, calspar, Piltadinnya, Butlers Dome, Olliffe, Lee and Mitchell, pitcheri, Wells, Forster Cliff, iron, amber quartz, Norsman, Kakannunna soakage, Wells, Gordon Hill, Inkanunna Creek, Opparinna, Britten Jones Creek, diorite dykes

  • 1 October Basedow Ranges, Goyder Springs, 8 October Mrs Staines, JJ Smith, Johansen, Longlegs (Australian Aboriginal man), Tittra Well, Henbury, 16 October Horseshoe Bend, RE Warburton, Middleton Ponds, Bot Buck, Larry Wells, Jim O'Neil, Dan McGillick, Spence Gall, New Crown Station, McLeod, Charlotte Waters, Murray, Alberga River, Oodnadatta, Ly Underdown, Ned Chengs, 18 October Williams called home, Paddy Burns, Louis Bailey, Haig, Vacuum Oil, Darwin, Kingsford Smith, Trooper Virgo, camel train, Lambinna, stores Wallis Foggarty & Co, Cheney and Kodak parcels to be delivered to Mooriltara, Todmorton, Cape Baron geese, French, Sharpe, Granite Downs Station, Mick Donahue, Jim Lennan, Mt Chandler, Bryan Lennan, Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62), Moorilyara, Stan Ferguson, Joe Jury, extract from Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62) diary 15-31 October (camel train)

  • 1 November Baily pulled Edmund Albert Colson's (AA 62) tooth, Ernabella Water Hole, Ferdinand Creek, Tomkinson River, Quest Expedition, Ted Lennan, Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62) diary 4 to 8 October (camel train), Fred Davis, Narrena rockhole, Lungleys Gulley, Quest expedition, Bunday Pass, Lake Wilson dry, Carruther's map, Murru Yilyah belt, Norman, Earl's Find, Mt Davies, iron 26 November crossed into WA, diotite belt

  • 1 December Mt Aloysius, Blackstone Ranges, iron, Terry back injury, 15 December rockhole, inscription on rock 'F Hann 19.11.03 Talbot', Cavenagh Range, Forrest, destination Oodnadatta, Terowie, Mt Davies, Mt Hinckley, crossed back into SA 21 December, Teisi Hill, Mt Pararie, Mann Ranges, Days Gully, Mt Ferdinand

  • 1 January 1931 Ernabella, Mt Chandler, Tom Donahue, Charlie Lister, Granite Downs, Mick Donohue, Billy Bristow, Vic Dumas, Brumby and Brown climbed Ayers Rock (now known as Uluru), Lambinna, Sharp, two Costello brothers, Todmorton, Glover, Sister Benny, Sister Barron, 5 January

CreatorMichael Terry
ControlAA 333/5/13
Date Range1930  -  1931
FormatsDiaries
Series AA 333/05