47-544: Garrwa or Garawa may be, Garrwa people Garrwa language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Garrwa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garrwa&oldid=881700584 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
94-799: A 2013 book entitled Where is Dr Leichhardt?: the greatest mystery in Australian history . Leichhardt's contribution to science, especially his successful expedition to Port Essington in 1845, was officially recognised. In 1847 the Geographical Society, Paris , awarded its annual prize for geographic discovery equally to Leichhardt and a French explorer, Rochet d'Héricourt; also in 1847, the Royal Geographical Society in London awarded Leichhardt its Patron's Medal ; and Prussia recognised his achievement by granting him
141-488: A ticket of leave holder who replaced Kelly at Henry Stuart Russell 's Cecil Plains station . The Aboriginal guides were Wommai and Billy Bombat, from Port Stephens . The party was last seen on 3 April 1848 at Allan Macpherson 's Cogoon run, an outlying part of Mount Abundance Station , west of Roma on the Darling Downs . Leichhardt's disappearance after moving inland, although investigated by many, remains
188-560: A Distance of Upwards of 3000 miles, During the Years 1844 and 1845 by Leichhardt describes this expedition. Leichhardt's diary from 9 September 1845-23 March 1846, is available on-line at the State Library of New South Wales. A memorial to John Gilbert , one of Leichhardt's companions on this journey, can be found on the north wall of St James' Church, Sydney . Under the title Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Scientia Mori (a variation on
235-693: A government grant and substantial private subscriptions, started in December 1846. It was supposed to take him from the Darling Downs to the west coast of Australia and ultimately to the Swan River and Perth . However, after covering only 800 kilometres (500 mi) the expedition team was forced to return in June 1847 due to heavy rain, malarial fever and famine. Members of the party nearly mutinied after learning that Leichhardt had failed to bring along
282-472: A king's pardon for having failed to return to Prussia when due to serve a period of compulsory military training. The Port Essington expedition was one of the longest land exploration journeys in Australia, and a useful one in the discovery of excellent pastoral country. Leichhardt's accounts and collections were valued, and his observations are generally considered to be accurate. He is remembered as one of
329-512: A medical kit. Faced with failure, Leichhardt seems to have suffered a nervous breakdown, and Aboriginal guide Harry Brown effectively took over as leader of the party, taking them successfully back to the Darling Downs. Leichhardt blamed failure of the expedition on his men's weakness. John Frederick Mann , his second-in-charge, published a rebuttal 20 years later, and a book, Eight Months with Leichhardt , after 40 years. After recovering from malaria Leichhardt spent six weeks in 1847 examining
376-529: A mystery. The expedition had been expected to take two to three years, but after no sign or word was received from Leichhardt it was assumed that he and the others in the party had died. The latest evidence suggests that they may have perished somewhere in the Great Sandy Desert of the Australian interior. Four years after Leichhardt's disappearance, the Government of New South Wales sent out
423-538: A name later taken on by a large cattle station still in existence, Seven Emu Station . After a nearly 4,800-kilometre (3,000-mile) overland journey, and having long been given up for dead, Leichhardt on 17 December 1845 arrived in Port Essington, where a company of Imperial marines was stationed. He returned to Sydney by ship, arriving on 25 March 1846 to a hero's welcome. The Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington,
470-539: A search expedition under Hovenden Hely . The expedition found nothing but a single campsite with a tree marked "L" over "XVA". In 1858 another search expedition was sent out, this time under Augustus Gregory . On 21 April near what is now Blackall , beside the Barcoo River , this expedition found a tree marked "L". In 1864 Duncan McIntyre discovered two trees marked with "L" on the Flinders River near
517-509: A sophisticated method of detoxifying the otherwise extremely poisonous cycad nuts. There were moderately high concentrations of people leading an industrious lifestyle. All of this was markedly different to the stereotyped images of 'savages' leading a 'nomadic' and 'primitive' existence.' The Garrwa now co-manage the Ganalanga-Mindibirrina Indigenous Protected Area , formed in 2015 through
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#1732782566402564-521: A tiny brass plate (15 cm × 2 cm or 5.91 in × 0.79 in) marked "LUDWIG LEICHHARDT 1848", discovered around 1900 by an Aboriginal stockman near Sturt Creek, between the Tanami and Great Sandy deserts, just inside Western Australia from the border with the Northern Territory. When found, the plate was attached to a partially burnt shotgun slung in a boab tree which
611-664: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Garrwa people The Garrwa people, also spelt Karawa and Garawa , are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Northern Territory , whose traditional lands extended from east of the McArthur River at Borroloola to Doomadgee and the Nicholson River in Queensland. Together with
658-574: The Bukalara (Barkly Tableland) . They see themselves as a freshwater people, distinct from the saltwater peoples to the north and east, harvesting food available in the riverine ecosystem – crayfish, turtles, tubers and waterlies – along with land game such as kangaroo, echidnas and possums . Drawing on a paraphrase by the historian Tony Roberts, the leading modern authority on the Garrwa Ilana Mushin identifies as part of Garrwa lands
705-559: The Division of Leichhardt in the Australian Parliament . The name of the eucalyptus tree species Corymbia leichhardtii commemorates Leichhardt. The insect Petasida ephippigera is commonly known as Leichhardt's grasshopper, and an alternative name for the largetooth sawfish ( Pristis pristis ) is Leichhardt's sawfish. On 23 October 1988, a monument was erected beside Leichhardt's blazed tree at Taroom by
752-569: The Gulf of Carpentaria . After his return to Victoria McIntyre telegraphed the Royal Society on 15 December 1864 that he had found "two trees marked L about 15 years old". He was subsequently appointed leader of a search expedition, but found no further trace of Leichhardt. In 1869 the Government of Western Australia heard rumours of a place where the remains of horses and men killed by indigenous Australians could be seen. A search expedition
799-568: The National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL), Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria , and the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW), Sydney Botanic Gardens . Leichhardt's life inspired a range of "Lemurian" novels, starting with George Firth Scott 's book The Last Lemurian (1898). His last expedition was the inspiration for the 1957 novel Voss by Patrick White . He inspired the radio plays The Lost Leader (1934) and What Happened to Leichhardt? (1948). In February 2013
846-781: The National Museum of Australia purchased the medal awarded to Leichhardt by London's Royal Geographical Society in 1847. It came directly from descendants of the Leichhardt family in Mexico. In 1848 Leichhardt again set out from the Condamine River to reach the Swan River. The expedition consisted of Leichhardt, four Europeans, two Aboriginal guides, seven horses, 20 mules and 50 bullocks. The Europeans were Adolph Classen, Arthur Hentig, Donald Stuart and Thomas Hands,
893-527: The Waanyi language , Garrwa belongs to the Garrwan language family , and had two dialects: the heavy eastern Guninderri and the light western variety of Garrwa. Its status within the larger Pama-Nyungan family is disputed: though it shares some features, it also displays many innovative forms that are rare in other Australian languages, suggesting that it fits a distinctive typology. Tindale calculated
940-585: The Wallumbilla tribe who in time came to openly share their stories and folklore with him. One detailed story referred to the death of a white man who was leading a party of mules and bullocks along the Maranoa River many years earlier. According to the Wallumbilla, a large group of Aboriginals had encircled the party and murdered everyone in it. It has been speculated that if the story was true,
987-809: The Garrwa. One particular use for them was as barter to obtain young wives from the Lardil of Mornington Island . An early survey of blood types suggested that the Garrwa had a high B phenotype ratio, a characteristic almost non-existent among Australian Aboriginal people, shared only by the Kaiadilt and Tagalag . The Garrwa were considered to be the main source for the B gene in surrounding continental populations. Ludwig Leichhardt Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt ( German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç 'vɪlhɛlm 'lu:tvɪç 'laɪçhaːʁt] ; 23 October 1813 – c. 1848 ), known as Ludwig Leichhardt ,
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#17327825664021034-650: The Universities of Göttingen and Berlin but never received a university degree. He moved to England in 1837, continued his study of the natural sciences at various places, including the British Museum , London, and the Jardin des Plantes , Paris, and undertook field work in several European countries, including France, Italy and Switzerland. On 14 February 1842 Leichhardt arrived in Sydney, Australia. His aim
1081-590: The Waanyi Garawa and Garawa Ranger groups. The Garrwa were divided into clans , the name of which one at least is known. With the onset of white colonization, the Garrwa are known to have moved up to the coast as far as Tully Inlet, and there they began to mix with the Yanyuwa. In 1916 copper was discovered in the area of Redbank in Garrwa territory and thereafter the Redbank Copper Mine
1128-513: The area along the Gulf of Carpentaria coastline of Queensland, around the Wearyan and Robinson Rivers . Two other groups, the Binbinga and Wilangarra became extinct soon after the beginning of white colonisation. The Garrwa habitat extended from the northern tropical, with its mangroves to southern semi-arid inland, with its sandstone gorges. According to the seasons, they would venture into
1175-612: The area described in the journal kept by Ludwig Leichhardt as he travelled an old aboriginal trade route through the southern coastal area, as that is. The area concerned, now called the Port McArthur Tidal Wetlands System , lay around the Robinson and Wearyan rivers, and Leichhardt described emu traps around waterholes, fish traps and fishing weirs across rivers, well-used footpaths, major living areas with substantial dwellings, wells of clear water and
1222-587: The ballistic biography of the Leichhardt gunplate." In 2003, a librarian found a letter in the NSW State Library that may shed light on Leichhardt's disappearance. Dated 2 April 1874, the letter, received by Sydney clergyman William Branwhite Clarke , was written by W. P. Gordon, a station owner from the Darling Downs who had met Leichhardt in the days before his party vanished. The letter relates how Gordon moved to Wallumbilla and how, after living there for more than 10 years, he had befriended
1269-577: The course of the Condamine River , southern Queensland, and the country between the route of another expedition led by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846 and his own route, covering nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi). Leichhardt's diary from 17 August 1847 to 14 September 1847, is available on-line at the State Library of New South Wales. In April 1847 Leichhardt shared the annual prize of the Paris Geographical Society , for
1316-532: The expedition himself. Accompanied by volunteers and supported by private funding, he left Sydney in August 1844 to sail to Moreton Bay, where four more joined the party. The expedition departed on 1 October 1844 from Jimbour Homestead , the farthest outpost of settlement on the Queensland Darling Downs . During this trip, Leichhardt named Seven Emu Creek, after shooting a mob of emus nearby,
1363-531: The expedition's belongings were likely traded widely after the massacre, explaining how items that could have come only from Leichhardt's expedition were found in the Gibson Desert and why the rifle butt with the brass plate was found some 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) west of the Maranoa River. The validity of all the claimed 'Leichhardt' relics and the various theories proposed is discussed in
1410-583: The extent of Garrwa lands at approximately 6,300 square miles (16,000 km ). They were in his view an inland people whose northern extension ran only as far as roughly the margins of the coastal plain some 40 miles (64 km) from the Gulf of Carpentaria's coastline. Their territory was rocky, crossing the plateau from the Robinson River homestead and the Foelsche River, running as far south as
1457-581: The headwaters of the former and Seigalls Creek Homestead. Their eastern flank went beyond Calvert Hills as far as east to Wollogorang close to the Queensland border and to the Westmoreland outstation. Maps have the Yanyuwa people to the north of the Garrwa, the Waanyi and Gudanji to their south, and the Yukulta / Ganggalidda to their east. Today the Garrwa people consider themselves related to
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1504-578: The invitation of Alexander Walker Scott , Leichhardt arrived at Ash Island , where he spent two or three days. Leichhardt's diary from 28 December 1842-July 1843, mostly in German, is available on-line at the State Library of New South Wales. After returning to Sydney early in 1844, Leichhardt hoped to take part in a proposed government-sponsored expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Darwin . When plans for this expedition fell through, Leichhardt decided to mount
1551-572: The lid of a tin matchbox and part of the ironwork of a saddle . Carnegie speculated that these were from Leichhardt's expedition. Except for a small brass plate that was found in 1900 bearing Leichhardt's name, "no artefacts with corroborated provenance have been able to shed light on Leichhardt's final expedition". In 1975, a ranger named Zac Mathias exhibited photographs in Darwin of Aboriginal cave paintings that showed white men with an animal. In 2006 Australian historians and scientists authenticated
1598-706: The local historical society and tourism association to celebrate Leichhardt's 175th birthday and the Bicentenary of Australia . The tree was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1992. Andrew Hurley's 2018 ‚afterlife biography‘, Ludwig Leichhardt‘s Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Travelling Myth , documents many of the different ways Leichhardt has been remembered in Australia (by both non-Indigenous and Indigenous people) as well as in his native Germany. Scientific specimens collected by Leichhardt are cared for at institutions including
1645-483: The more commonly seen Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ) the inscription on the monument, which was "erected by the colonists of New South Wales " reads: "in memory of John Gilbert, Ornithologist , who was speared by the blacks on 29 June 1845 during the first overland expedition to Port Essington by Dr Ludwig Leichhardt and his intrepid companions". There is also a memorial to Gilbert at Gilbert's Lookout at Taroom . Leichhardt's second expedition, undertaken with
1692-476: The most authoritative early recorders of Australia's environment and the best trained natural scientist to explore Australia to that time. Leichhardt left a record of his observations in Australia from 1842 to 1848 in diaries, letters, notebooks, sketch-books, maps, and in his published works. A detailed map of Ludwig Leichhardt's route in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington (1844 & 1845), from his Original Map, adjusted and drawn... by John Arrowsmith
1739-530: The most important geographic discovery with the French explorer Charles-Xavier Rochet d'Héricourt. Soon afterward, on 24 May, the Royal Geographical Society , London, awarded Leichhardt its Patron's Medal as recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey. Leichhardt himself never saw these medals but was aware he had been awarded them. In one of his last known letters he wrote: I've had
1786-462: The pleasure of hearing that the geographical society in London has awarded me one of its medals, and that the Parisian geographical society has conferred a similar honour upon me. Naturally I'm very pleased to think that such discerning authorities consider me worthy of such honour; but whatever I have done has never been for honour. I have worked for the sake of science, and for nothing else. In 2012
1833-714: Was a German explorer and naturalist , most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia. Leichhardt was born on 23 October 1813 in the hamlet of Sabrodt near the village of Trebatsch, today part of Tauche , in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg (now within the Federal Republic of Germany ). He was the fourth son and sixth of the eight children of Christian Hieronymus Matthias Leichhardt, farmer and royal inspector and his wife Charlotte Sophie, née Strählow. Between 1831 and 1836 Leichhardt studied philosophy, language, and natural sciences at
1880-596: Was a major achievement, which ranks him with other successful European explorers of Australia . Australia has commemorated Ludwig Leichhardt through the use of his name in several places: Leichhardt , a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, and the surrounding Municipality of Leichhardt ; Leichhardt , a suburb of Ipswich ; the Leichhardt Highway and the Leichhardt River in Queensland; and
1927-431: Was engraved with the initial "L". The plate is now part of the National Museum of Australia collection. Before the nameplate was authenticated, historians could only speculate on the route Leichhardt had taken and how far he had journeyed before perishing. The location of the plate indicated that he made it at least two thirds of the way across the continent during his east-west crossing attempt. It also suggested that he
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1974-519: Was established. The pollution from the overflow of its washed ores has turned the nearby Hanrahan's Creek toxic and seeped over as far as the Wentworth Aggregation wetland, Wollogorang Station and affected sacred aboriginal sites such as Moonlight Falls. Much prized kulunja knife blades of the leilira type were fashioned from quartzite mined at a site 6 miles south of the modern Redbanks Copper Mine, and used as articles of trade by
2021-529: Was following a northern arc from Moreton Bay in Queensland to the Swan River in Western Australia, following the headwaters of rivers, rather than heading straight through the desert interior. For a speculative "ballistic" biography of the nameplate and its significance in Indigenous and non-Indigenous lifeworlds, see Andrew Hurley's article, "Reports, silences and repercussion: wondering about
2068-489: Was published some time after his disappearance and his reputation suffered badly. The fairness of this criticism continues to be debated. Leichhardt's failed attempt to make the first east–west crossing of the Australian continent may be compared with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61, which succeeded in crossing from south to north, but failed to return. However, Leichhardt's success in making it to Port Essington in 1845
2115-414: Was ranked #8 in the 'Top 150: Documenting Queensland' exhibition when it toured to venues around Queensland from February 2009 to April 2010. The exhibition was part of Queensland State Archives ' events and exhibition program which contributed to the state's Q150 celebrations, marking the 150th anniversary of the separation of Queensland from New South Wales. Harsh criticism of Leichhardt's character
2162-516: Was sent out under John Forrest , but nothing was found, and it was decided that the story might refer to the bones of horses left for dead at Poison Rock during Robert Austin 's expedition of 1854 . The mystery of Leichhardt's fate remained in the minds of explorers for many years. During David Carnegie 's expedition through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts in 1896 he encountered some Aborigines who had among their possessions an iron tent peg,
2209-497: Was to explore inland Australia and he was hopeful of a government appointment in his fields of interest. In September 1842 Leichhardt went to the Hunter River valley north of Sydney to study the geology, flora and fauna of the region, and to observe farming methods. He then set out on his own on a specimen-collecting journey that took him from Newcastle , New South Wales, to Moreton Bay in Queensland. On 23 September 1842, at
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