Leichhardt, FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG

Leichhardt, FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG, explorer in Australia, was born at Trebatsch, south-east of Berlin, on 23d October 1813, and studied philology at Göttingen and natural science at Berlin. In 1841 he proceeded to Australia. There he conducted an expedition (1843-48) from Moreton Bay, in Queensland, north-westwards to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and then, skirting its south and west shores, finally reached Port Essington. In the end of 1846 he made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the base of Cape York Peninsula. In November 1847 he again started from Moreton Bay with the intention of crossing the entire continent from east to west, but he was lost in the interior. Nothing authentic has been heard of him since April 3, 1848. The Journal of his first journey was published in London in 1847, and his Letters in German in 1881.