On Hermit Hill

Benjamin Herschel Babbage and the Lake Torrens Myth

Rod Tucker

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English

22 April 2021

History; Australasian & Pacific history

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Benjamin Herschel Babbage was a South Australian engineer, surveyor and explorer. In 1858, he stood on Hermit Hill, near Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre (South), and recognised that there was a gap in a mythical horseshoe-shaped Lake Torrens that the explorer Edward John Eyre had conceived sixteen years earlier. Babbage’s discovery was a crucial step in opening northern South Australia to European settlement and paved the way for John McDouall Stuart’s crossing of the continent. Babbage achieved much under arduous conditions, but the Adelaide newspapers accused him of slow progress, and the South Australian Government summarily dismissed him as expedition leader.

‘This is a carefully researched and finely crafted book which will be an important addition to our literature of the European exploration of inland Australia.’ — Colin Harris is a Fellow and Past President of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia

• richly illustrated with original sketches & maps

• extensive quotation from diaries & documents

• a story of close contact between European venturers and Aboriginal inhabitants.

By: Rod Tucker
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 569g
ISBN: 9781922454652
ISBN 10: 1922454656
Publication Date: 22 April 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active