A tribute to the surveyors/explorers of the 19th century Australia
Tweedie, Graham
You cannot assist in improving the situation for mankind without knowing where we have come from and how we evolved. This paper applies this to Surveying and exploring of Australia in the 18000s. If we delve into how our pioneering Surveyors toiled and provided the valuable data required to open up the vast inland areas of this nation we can see that their great work ethic, endurance and sheer will-power to succeed set a bench mark and motivator for modern day Surveyors and spatial scientists to provide the ongoing building blocks of data collection and setout methodology necessary to meet the challenges of an ever evolving world. If we donnt know where weeve come from we cannt evolve and know where we want to go and how to get there. Our experiences (including mistakes) lay out the path for us to follow as we strive to produce a more sophisticated world in which to live. As a fine example of the Surveying experience and the part it has played I provide here a tribute to the wonderful Australian pioneering Surveyors of the 19th Century by describing:- (a) The Surveying methods they used, developed and refined (b) The size and extents of their Surveys (c) The reasons the Surveys were undertaken and (d) The conditions under which these surveys were carried out
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