Record ID:
35106473 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50027752
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18350720
  • Bristol (England)
Death:
  • 18971113
  • Western Australia
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • Explorers Authors
Used for:
  • Giles, Ernest, -1897
  • Giles, Ernest, d. 1897
  • Giles, William Ernest Powell, 1835-1897
Notes:
  • Australia twice traversed, 1889.: title page (Ernest Giles)
  • Giles 1875 expedition, 2015: p. 1 (Ernest Giles; b. July 20, 1835)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), 29 January 2021: (Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, was born on 20 July 1835 at Bristol, England, and was educated at Christ's Hospital (where he was admitted as William Ernest Powell Giles). He followed his parents to Adelaide in 1850. He moved to Victoria in 1852, and in 1861-1865 egnaged in journeys of exploration in western New South Wales. From 1872 onwards he made several exploring expeditions across Central and Western Australia. He died in the vicinity of the Coolgardie goldrush, Western Australia, on 13 November 1897.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/giles-ernest-3611
Local system number:
  • 000000107066
  • abv02058415
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX17778
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda AIAS DLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc