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Aplin, Christopher D'Oyly Hale (1819 - 1875)

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Geologist

Born: 1819 Cawnpore, India. Died: 9 September 1875 Somerset, Queensland, Australia.

Christopher D'Oyly H. Aplin was the first Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland 1868-69. Earlier he was employed by the Geological Survey of Victoria 1856-68.

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Chronology
1840 Arrived in Australia (Victoria)
1845 Moved to Port Essington in the Northern Territory
1846? - ? Collector of Customs and Surveyor-General in Borneo
1856 - 1868 Geological survey of Victoria
1868 - 1869 First Government Geological Surveyor of Southern Queensland
c. 1871 - c. 1874 Geologist at a sugar plantation in Maryborough, Queensland
1874 - 1875 Police Magistrate at Somerset

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See Also

Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000022. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 15 March 2005

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Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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