With the Cape York prospecting party [manuscript] : being an account of a trip from Cape York to the Carron Range, with various peninsular sidelights, 1897

Creator
Shanahan, M.W., active 1897
Call Number
MS 9447
Created/Published
1897
Extent
1 cm. (93 p.)
Items
93
Scope and Content
Typescript account (prepared in 1897) of a government subsidised gold prospecting expedition lead by M.W. Shanahan and his four assistants in the peninsula south of Cape York between July and October 1896. As well as commenting on the mining potential of the region, Shanahan recounts the failure of the 1848 expedition to the area by E.B. Kennedy, the settlement of Somerset and local identity Frank Lascelles Jardin. It also extensively describes the customs and languages of peninsula Aborigines.
Background
M.W. Shanahan was a gold prospector working on Horn Island before organising an expedition to Cape York Peninsula in 1896.
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Shanahan, M.W. (1897). With the Cape York prospecting party being an account of a trip from Cape York to the Carron Range, with various peninsular sidelights, Retrieved April 27, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1161132858

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Shanahan, M.W. With the Cape York prospecting party being an account of a trip from Cape York to the Carron Range, with various peninsular sidelights, : , 1897. Web. 27 April 2024 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1161132858>

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Shanahan, M.W. 1897, With the Cape York prospecting party being an account of a trip from Cape York to the Carron Range, with various peninsular sidelights, , viewed 27 April 2024 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1161132858

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