Log of Michael Terry leader of Emu Mining Company expedition to Lake Mackay 1933

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Brown 205x337 mm notebook annotated on fly leaf "Log of Michael Terry leader leader of Emu Mining Company expedition to Lake Mackay 1933" opposite list of soil and mining samples, with mileages for April to August. Each daily entry includes camp number (eg C22) and a weather report.

  • 30 March O'Grady, Adelaide, Alice Springs

  • 1 April Mrs Meyers, Ben Nicker, Mick Heenan, Stafford, Kharlick, camels, Wallis Fogarty, Paddy Tucker, Carrington relating to incursion into reserve 1932, Miss Olive Muriel Pink, Sydney, David Douglas Smith, Brazenal, Stafford, Hermannsburg, Bob (Australian Aboriginal man), Paddy (Australian Aboriginal man), Gordon Lyon, Constable Hamilton, Coniston, Mick Heenan, Ryans Well, Burt Well, Fred Coban, George Edington, 8 April notes on Stafford's account, Pat Chapman, Major Kirby, Bunker Hill, Barney O'Leary, Mt Russell, Murray Russell, Thornycroft, Constable Lynch, Tanami, Warden Bell, Kilmartin, Constable Muldon, Willis, Titree, Neurillba Syndicate, CA Stokes, VM Newland, Billy Fox, Halls Creek, Billy Braitling, Rock Hill, Karrandee Creek, Star Creek, Cockatoo Creek, 25 April list camel's names, Jack Cusack, Wolfram Hill, Mt Doreen, grass rat or 'Quarlpa', Alec Ross, George Blake

  • 1 May Wolfram Hill, Braitling Road, Loonbugalong, Mt Doreen, list of material left at Braitling's, Kerreedee Creek, Whitington Soak, AJ Thomson 1926, Bob and Paddy (Australian Aboriginal men), Vaughn Spring, 6 May marked tree "1.8.32/6.5.33", mythical snake, date stones planted last year sprouting, Waite Creek, Braitling, Constable Tony Lynch, 18 May erected pole with initials and 15.3.33 at the mine and photographed the formations, Midgin, Thomas Reservoir, copper, Lake Mackay, Black Shaft soakage, Ewoora, Aquoora, Connoo Well, Emu wren, Adelaide SA Museum, Ethel Creek, 26 May engraved post "MT, BN, SO'G, 14 & 23.8.1932, 26.5.33", Muryeroo, McEwan Hills, Jimmy Wyckham, O'Gradys Well, Mountain Devil, shell parrots

  • 1 June Dick Rowan, Sydney Margaret Range, O'Neil and Ryan, Koolz-nynwa rockhole, Vaughn Spring, 3 June nearing WA border, Stausmore Range, Brookman Waters, Norman Brookman, Oasis Valley, Norman Barnett Tindale (AA 338), Kaiditchi, Wallmulla, Montejinnie, Lake Weston, Hidden Basin, cairn marked "JRO'D 1910" added "MT BN 33", Lake White, Mary Spring, Mt Russell, 20 June near 1928 expedition track, Blackwood Bluff, Corkscrew Hill, Kirby, Wilson, Wave Hill, Camooweal, Ted North, Chapman and wife, McEwin, Mackay Expedition to the Petermann Ranges, Kilgarif, Alice Springs, Adelaide, 8GF, Hordern Hill

  • 1 July Blackwood Bluff, Newlands Cave, Joe Brown, Black Shaft, Surprise rockhole, Jimmy Wyckham, Tom Hanlan, cattle duffing, marked tree "T 8.6.33", Waterloo Wells, 8 July stone circles, Gibsons Desert, Browns Plains, Joe Brown, Farewell, Whitington Soak, Doreen, Wolfram Hill, stock from Kimberley via Tanami, 19 July evidence of earth movement, Kerree water hole, Mt Allen, Reynolds Range, Napperby Station, Mr Sullivan, Mr Turner, Mr Tilmouth, Fred Davis, murder at Coniston, Tommy Turner, Mt Hammond

  • 1 August Mt Hammond, Hann Range, galira, copper, Tilmouth, Coniston, Napperby Creek, 1926 Jack Carige, Wilton Hack, Freshfield, Claxton, pyrites, white eagle hawkes, Connors Well, Ryans Well, Bohning brothers, Jack Willis, Joe Roberts, Mucketi bore, Tony Lynch, Mt Peake Station, Bill Petherick, Alf Turner, Alec Scott, Balfor Warehope, Fred Harris, Jack Kraft, Alice Springs, Mrs Roper, Mrs Meyers, Charlie Maynard, Scientific Gold Exploration Co., Chateau Tanunda, Percival Gull, Constable W McKinnon, NE Lowe, Ali Mahomet (also known as Ramazan), Oodnadatta, 24 August arrived Adelaide

CreatorMichael Terry
ControlAA 333/5/19
Date Range1933  -  1933
FormatsDiaries
Series AA 333/05