John McDouall Stuart
The John McDouall Stuart Society Inc. celebrates the name and achievements of John McDouall Stuart and his Companions who, in 1862, completed the first European crossing of Australia from Adelaide to Van Diemen Gulf, passing through the centre and returning safely along the same route.
John McDouall Stuart
Stuart has been described as Australia's greatest inland explorer.
The noted latter day explorer & historian Ernest Favenc said:
"Stuart's victory was all his own; he had followed in no other persons footsteps; he had crossed the true centre and he had made the coast at a point much further north than his rivals."
Chambers Pillar. A well known landmark in Central Australia; discovered by John McDouall Stuart on April 6th,1860.
Stuart reserved an explorer's right to name the lands he found. He chose "Alexandra", but the name never came into common useage.
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