NOTED EXPLORER’S DEATH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18748, 29 December 1922, Page 2

NOTED EXPLORER’S DEATH

ADVENTUROUS CAREER IN AUSTRALIA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, December 20. The last of the explorers of the great outback of Australia, more particularly of the interior of tho-. Northern Territory, has been removed by the death at Darwin of Mr David Lindsay. Mr Lindsay was the leader of tho Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition which crossed tho great Victoria district, a distance of 550 miles, in 35 days. On the journey a great auriferous, area was discovered and reported. Prospectors went .out to the area and found the groat goldfield of Western Australia. An Australian horn, Lindsay got his taste for exploration as a member of the Survey Department of South Australia, when that State had control of the Northern Territory. He regarded as one of his greatest achievements the part he played in bringing about the separation of tho Territory from' South jVustralia. In 1883 Lindsay explored Arnheim, Land, and the next year he spent in traversing' the hitherto unknown north-west district of South Australia, Five years later the young explorer rode across the continent Rom north to south with only a black boy for company. The next couple of years were spent in the M'Donnell Ranges, surveying, prospecting, and exploring. Always an enthusiastic advocate of the White Australia; policy, the explorer foresaw a splendid future for tropical Australia as the home of the white man, and at the time of hia death was engaged in connection with a large syndicate, in taking up land in the Territory for cotton growing, in the possibilities of which he had great faith.