Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Exploration since 1900

Expedition Articles
These articles relate to explorer expeditions to, in or around Australia and it's territories.

1900

 * 1901 Finckh voyage of 1901 *Alfred Edmund Finckh investigated the Great Barrier Reef from Cooktown to Lizard Island
 * resources - Alfred Edmund Finckh bio page
 * 1901 - 1904 British National Antarctic Expedition Robert Falcon Scott exploration along the coast of the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
 * Louis Charles Bernacchi
 * resources - Louis Charles Bernacchi bio page
 * 1901 Canning expedition of 1901 Alfred Canning surveyed for No.1 rabbit proof fence
 * Canning Stock Route
 * resources - Alfred Wernam Canning bio page
 * 1901 Drake-Brockman expedition of 1901 Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman explored north of the Kimberleys
 * Charles Crossland
 * F. M. House
 * Andrew Gibb Maitland
 * resources - Maitland, Andrew Gibb bio page
 * Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman bio page
 * 1903 North-West Prospecting Expedition Lawrence Allen Wells
 * Herbert Basedow
 * 1903 Hann expedition of 1903 *check dates* Frank Hann opened a track from Laverton to the Warburton Ranges
 * 1905 Brown expedition of 1905 Henry Yorke Lyell Brown journeyed to Charlotte Waters and to the north-west of the Northern Territory
 * resources - Henry Yorke Lyell Brown bio page
 * 1906 - 1907 Canning expedition of 1906 to 1907 Alfred Canning surveyed for No.1 rabbit proof fence
 * resources - Alfred Wernam Canning bio page explored from Daydawn, WA to Halls Creek
 * 1907 Brown expedition of 1907 Henry Yorke Lyell Brown went from Van Diemen Gulf to the McArthur River
 * resources - Henry Yorke Lyell Brown bio page
 * 1907 Hann expedition of 1907 *check dates* Frank Hann investigated a rumour of gold at Queen Victoria Springs on the South Australian border in 1903 and in 1907
 * 1907 - 1909 Nimrod Expedition *check dates* Ernest Shackleton expedition to South Pole.
 * Raymond Edward Priestley
 * Nimrod (ship)
 * George Buckley (explorer)
 * Frank Wild
 * Eric Marshall
 * Edgeworth David
 * Jameson Adams
 * Leo Arthur Cotton
 * resources - S. Murray-Smith, 'Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886 - 1974)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Copyright 2006, updated continuously, ISSN 1833-7538, published by Australian National University
 * Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David bio page
 * Leo Arthur Cotton bio page
 * 1909 Chewings expedition of 1909 Charles Chewings surveyed a stock route from Barrow Creek to Victoria River
 * resources - Charles Chewings bio page
 * 1909 Brown expedition of 1909 Henry Yorke Lyell Brown assessed the Tanami goldfield
 * resources - Henry Yorke Lyell Brown bio page

1910

 * 1910 - 1912 Amundsen expedition of 1910 to 1912 *check dates* Roald Amundsen Expedition to South Pole.
 * resources - link 2
 * 1910 - 1913 Terra Nova expedition Robert Falcon Scott second Antarctic expedition
 * Thomas Griffith Taylor
 * Raymond Edward Priestley
 * resources - Sir Raymond Edward Priestley bio page
 * Thomas Griffith Taylor bio page
 * 1911 - 1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition *check dates* Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition.
 * Andrew Dougald Watson
 * Herbert Dyce Murphy
 * Morton Henry Moyes
 * John King Davis
 * Cecil Madigan
 * Charles Francis Laseron
 * James Francis "Frank" Hurley
 * John George Hunter
 * Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley
 * George Frederick Ainsworth
 * resources - link 2
 * Sir Douglas Mawson bio page
 * Andrew Dougald Watson bio page
 * Herbert Dyce Murphy bio page
 * Morton Henry Moyes bio page
 * John King Davis bio page
 * Cecil Thomas Madigan bio page
 * Charles Francis Laseron bio page
 * James Francis Hurley bio page
 * John George Hunter bio page
 * Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley bio page
 * Frederick Ainsworth bio page
 * 1914 - 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Ernest Shackleton Expedition to South Pole.
 * James Francis "Frank" Hurley
 * Lionel George Alfred Hooke
 * resources - link 2
 * James Francis Hurley bio page
 * Sir Lionel George Alfred Hooke bio page
 * 1916 Amundsen expedition of 1910 to 1912 Herbert Basedow searched for munition minerals in the northern Kimberleys of Western Australia
 * resources - Herbert Basedow bio page

1920

 * 192? Basedow expedition of 192? Herbert Basedow led a search for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt
 * resources - Herbert Basedow bio page
 * 1920 - 1921 Cope voyage of 1921 to 1922 J L Cope unsuccessful voyage to Graham Land.
 * George Hubert Wilkins
 * resources - Sir George Hubert Wilkins bio page
 * 1920 - 1923 Hurley expeditions 0f 1920 to 1923 James Francis "Frank" Hurley made two long and well-publicized filming expeditions to the Torres Strait Islands and to Papua
 * resources - James Francis Hurley bio page
 * 1921 - 1922 Shackleton-Rowett Expedition Ernest Shackleton in Antarctic region
 * 1926 Mackay expedition of 1926 Donald George Mackay went into the Petermann Ranges by camel
 * Herbert Basedow
 * resources - Donald George Mackay bio page
 * 1928 Mackay expedition of 1926 Donald George Mackay explored Arnhem Land
 * Herbert Basedow
 * resources - Donald George Mackay bio page
 * 1928 Colson expedition of 1928 Edmund Albert Colson explored west of the Goyder River for 300 miles (483 km) beyond Mount Irwin station.
 * resources - Edmund Albert Colson bio page
 * '''1928 - 1929 Wilkins aerial expeditions of 1928 and 1929 George Hubert Wilkins Antarctica
 * 1929 - 1930 British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Douglas Mawson lead voyages to Antarctica
 * Morton Henry Moyes
 * John King Davis
 * James Francis "Frank" Hurley
 * resources - Morton Henry Moyes bio page
 * John King Davis bio page
 * James Francis Hurley bio page
 * 1929 Canning expedition of 1929 Alfred Canning reopened Canning Stock Route
 * resources - Alfred Wernam Canning bio page

1930

 * 1930 Terry expeditions of 1930 Michael Terry explored in the Petermann and Tomkinson ranges
 * Edmund Albert Colson
 * resources - Edmund Albert Colson bio page
 * 1930 Wilkins expedition of 1930 George Hubert Wilkins Antarctica
 * 1931 Mawson expedition of 1931 *check dates* Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia'''
 * 1933 and 1934 Davies expeditions of 1933 and 1934 Harold Whitridge Davies studied the possibility that Aborigines living in the hot, arid conditions could have become especially adapted to water deprivation. First at Hermannsburg, and second at Mount Liebig. These are probably not properly called exploration expeditions, but have been included here nonetheless.
 * Theodor George Henry Strehlow
 * resources - Harold Whitridge Davies bio page
 * Theodor George Henry Strehlow bio page
 * 1933 - 1934 Wilkins and Ellsworth expedition of 1933 to 1934 George Hubert Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctica
 * 1934-1937 British Graham Land Expedition John Riddoch Rymill made explorations of Antarctica
 * William E. Hampton
 * resources - British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37
 * John Riddoch Rymill bio page
 * 1934 - 1935 Wilkins and Ellsworth expedition of 1934 to 1935 George Hubert Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctica
 * 1935 Strickland-Purari patrol Jack Gordon Hides explored in the region of Papua, between the Strickland and Purari rivers
 * resources - Jack Gordon Hides bio page
 * 1935 - 1936 Wilkins and Ellsworth expedition of 1935 to 1936 George Hubert Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctica
 * 1936 Colson expedition of 1936 Edmund Albert Colson crossed the Simpson Desert
 * Eringa Peter
 * resources - Edmund Albert Colson bio page
 * 1938 - 1939 Wilkins and Ellsworth expedition of 1938 to 1939 George Hubert Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctica
 * 1939 Madigan expedition of 1939 Cecil Madigan crosses Simpson Desert
 * resources - Cecil Thomas Madigan bio page
 * 1994 David Noble (canyoner) explorer of Wollemi National Park, discovered the Wollemi Pine (unsure whether this really belongs in an exploration list)