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Ernest Henry (1 May 1837 – 26 March 1919) was an English explorer and pioneer grazier. He is best known as an explorer of North-West Queensland and was the first settler on a property on the Flinders River which he named Hughenden Station, later the location of the town of Hughenden. He discovered copper in the Cloncurry area and is considered the father of both towns. Henry's life was summarised by S.U. Pearson: "Few men have encompassed more in their lifetime than he, and not many have known greater toil and hardship. In his unassuming way, he probably did more for North Queensland than any other man. The wide untrammeled bush was his home and he reveled in it." In Brisbane, Henry met George Elphinstone Dalrymple who was planning an expedition to explore the Burdekin River. During this journey, Henry's party passed through an area with many Aboriginal people and became fearful of the armed Aboriginal warriors who the party believed were pursuing them, and so the party set a dog upon the Aboriginal people and also shot at them. Henry's participation in Dalrymple's expedition resulted in him securing three pastoral stations: Baroondah (now the locality of Baroondah) on the Dawson River, Mount McConnel at the junction of the Suttor and Burdekin rivers, and Conway (which adjoined Mount McConnel) at the head of Sellheim Creek. By 1861 he and his brother Arthur had stocked them with sheep and cattle driven from southern Queensland properties. But Henry was never satisfied. Henry wanted to view this new country himself and set out from Mount McConnell on 24 November 1863 with a Mr Devlin and his favourite aboriginal boy, Dick. On the Flinders River he took up land which he named Hughenden Station after his mother's childhood home in England, Hughenden Manor. The township of Hughenden was laid out in the same area in 1876. On an exploring trip in the Cloncurry region in 1867, Henry found lumps of a heavy black mineral and took samples to Peak Downs, the nearest settlement inland from Rockhampton, to report and register their find. The mineral proved to be iron ore, a worthless find as the deposit was too distant from the nearest port. Henry again returned to the Cloncurry area with his aboriginal boy, Dick, fossicking for minerals. On 20 May 1867, he found the mother lode of copper that became the Great Australian Mine. In 1876 the township of Cloncurry was laid out by Surveyor William H Bishop, the same man who laid out the township of Hughenden. In 1883 Tarsis Copper Smelting Company began work on the Great Australian mine. A furnace, rail tracks, rail trucks, and other mining equipment were dragged from Normanton. But the mine soon closed and the furnace on the bank of the Coppermine Creek decayed into a rusty Cloncurry landmark. Henry disposed of his various mining leases over the years, and by 1913 the last of his holdings, Mount Oxide, had been sold for £40,000. He lived alone at the Grange on the outskirts of Cloncurry. His wife, whom he had married in 1870 and by whom he had two children, died in 1888. Henry died at Epping, New South Wales, on 26 March 1919. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Henry_(explorer)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen "Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: /ˈɑːmʊndsən/, US: /-məns-/; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage by sea, from 1903 to 1906, and the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911. He led the first expedition proven to have reached the North Pole in 1926. He disappeared while taking part in a rescue mission for the airship Italia in 1928." "During the third winter, Maud was frozen in the western Bering Strait. She finally became free and the expedition sailed south, reaching Seattle, in the American Pacific Northwest in 1921 for repairs. Amundsen returned to Norway, needing to put his finances in order. He took with him two young indigenous girls, a four-year-old he adopted, Kakonita, and her companion Camilla. When Amundsen went bankrupt two years later, however, he sent the girls to be cared for by Camilla's father, who lived in eastern Russia."

See also similar photo in the New-York tribune. [volume], January 15, 1922, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-01-15/ed-... According to www.transit-verlag.de/produkt/kap-herzstein-die-geschicht..., the ten-year-old (or 11-year-old, s. norla.no/nb/books/1034-cape-heartstone-the-story-of-nita-...) Camilla Carpendale was the daughter of a Siberian mother and an Australian prospector. She was most likely Camilla Carpendale Amundsen (1909-1974) www.findagrave.com/memorial/134109355/

Per a Norwegian site, auto-translated: "Amundsen traveled to Norway to arrange various matters, not least the economy. With him, he had Kakonita, the four-year-old daughter of one of the natives who had helped on board, and the daughter of an Australian merchant, married a chick. The little Kakonita was motherless, and nine-year-old Camilla was going to be her friend; Amundsen's opinion was to give them a better start in life in Norway. The girls had their schooling in Svartskog for several years before being sent back to their home country. They both ended up with Camilla's family, who later moved to Seattle with them." nbl.snl.no/Roald_Amundsen

From left to right - Richard Byrd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd Clarence Chamberlin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Chamberlin George O. Noville en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Otto_Noville