Sir Augustus Charles Gregory KCMG FRSGS (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer and surveyor. Between 1846 and 1858 he undertook...
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coal-mining centres of Central Queensland. The highway was named after Augustus Gregory, an early explorer. The highway runs southward from Quartz Blow Creek...
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younger brother of the explorer and politician Augustus Gregory, who also made his career in the colony. Gregory was born at Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England...
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Robert Augustus Gregory (17 October 1888 – 9 November 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian...
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all the way to the Barkly Tableland. He named it the Gregory River in honour of Augustus Gregory, at the time the Queensland Surveyor General and an explorer...
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Augustus is a masculine given name derived from Augustus, meaning "majestic," "the increaser," or "venerable". Many of its descended forms are August,...
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Australia. The specific name gregorii honours the Australian explorer Augustus Gregory. The most widely recognised common name is 'boab', which is a shortened...
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officially "Augustus", although other titles such as Dominus were also used. Their names were preceded by Imperator Caesar and followed by Augustus. Following...
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kilometres (68 mi) NNE of Southern Cross. It is in the Shire of Yilgarn. Augustus Gregory discovered and named the 617-metre (2,024 ft) high landmark on 17 August...
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"XVA". In 1858 another search expedition was sent out, this time under Augustus Gregory. On 21 April near what is now Blackall, beside the Barcoo River, this...
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Europeans around 1844-1845, when explorer Augustus Gregory crossed into their territory. From 1855 to 1856 Gregory led an expedition from the plains of the...
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gaps in the lake, which were later traversed other explorers such as Augustus Gregory and Peter Warburton. On 15 June 1858 near Pernatty Creek he discovered...
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Australia in 1848, Fitzgerald accompanied Augustus Gregory on an expedition in the Northampton region where Gregory and his brother had discovered lead the...
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colony in 1850. The Gregory brothers led major exploration expeditions to many parts of the colony, including: 1851: Augustus Gregory surveys the Greenough...
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Elsey (1834–1857), who was with Mueller on the 1856 expedition led by Augustus Gregory. "Ripogonum elseyanum F.Muell.". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)...
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The first European to travel through the area was the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory in 1855 or 1856 as part of his expedition from Port Essington to...
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as Gregory's Salt Sea on Alfred Canning's map of the area when he was surveying the Canning Stock Route. It was named to honour the explorer Augustus Gregory...
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and surveyed Point Moore and Champion Bay. A decade later, explorer Augustus Gregory travelled through the area. A member of his party, James Perry Walcott...
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from "Hejanding Well", a name first recorded by the surveyor/explorer Augustus Gregory in 1846. Ejanding used to have a primary school. It operated from 1926...
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Leichhardt who traversed the area in 1844 and 1845. He was followed by Augustus Gregory of the North Australian Expedition in 1856, and then Burke and Wills...
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Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important...
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Joseph Elsey in northern Queensland while on an expedition led by Augustus Gregory. Gould placed the species in the genus Psephotus and coined the binomial...
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accompany the North Australian Exploring Expedition (1855–1856) led by Augustus Gregory, and decided to join despite initial hesitations. He explored the Victoria...
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explored in 1846 by explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell and his party. In 1856, Augustus Gregory passed through the area noting that the landscape was a vast plain...
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Aboriginal name was recorded as Jandacot by surveyor J. W. Gregory, brother of Augustus Gregory. During subsequent years, the name was recorded variously...
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Romulus Augustulus (redirect from Flavius Romulus Augustus)
Romulus Augustus (c. 465 – after 511), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed...
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Gregory's son, Richard Augustus Gregory (1795-1835) inherited the property and in 1847, the plantation passed again through inheritance to Gregory's daughter...
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Surgeons, Elsey joined the North Australian Exploring Expedition, led by Augustus Gregory, that was under taken in 1856. His notes on three novel specimens of...
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family in England. He met Francis Thomas Gregory on one of his voyages. Gregory's brother, Augustus Gregory was Surveyor General and Commissioner for...
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Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (Edward Augustus; 2 November 1767 – 23 January 1820) was the fourth son and fifth child of King George III and...
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