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Ernest
Giles was born in England. At the age of 15 he emigrated to
Australia. At first this young man lived and worked among the
sheep and cattle stations. As a result he passed most of his
young life time among the very dry bushes of Australia. He moved
to Adelaide when he arrived in Australia. He is the first
European to have seen the rock formation named The Olgas. He
wanted to name these lakes after his benefactor Baron Ferdinand
Von Mueller but the latter preferred to give this honour to the
king of Spain and the queen of Wurttemberg. He had many journeys
whereby he was close to death. He nearly died of starvation or
thirst but always managed his way till the end of his aim, that
is, to get to the end of his journey. After several years he was
awarded but the Australian government of his time just gave him
their backs for achieving so great things. They didn’t want to
give him his financial award as it was supposed to be. He died
on the 20 November 1897 of pneumonia and was as from them
virtually forgotten. |
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