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The Robert Brown Lookout, erected over a trigonometrical station, commemorates the 200th anniversary of the ascent of Mount Brown, by naturalist Robert Brown with a party of others from Matthew Flinders' Investigator which was anchored in Spencer Gulf, on 10 March 1802.
It was erected as part of Encounter 2002, the Flinders and Baudin encounter bicentenary celebrations in South Australia.
Robert Brown (1773 -1858), a botanist, collected, studied and classified thousands of plant flora he collected from the Flinders expedition to Australia in 1801 – 1805. He described Brownian motion, the movement of small particles in solution, which is named after him and he described and named the plant cell nuclei. He was the first to recognize the difference between gymnosperms (conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants).
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Location
| Address: | Richman Valley Road, Mount Brown Summit, Mount Brown Conservation Park, Quorn, 5433 |
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| State: | SA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -32.503793 Long: 138.005341 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Structure |
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| Monument Theme: | Landscape |
| Sub-Theme: | Exploration |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 10-March-1802 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 10-March-1802 |
| Link: | http://adb.anu.edu.au/ |
Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 2002 |
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Robert Brown
Lookout
commemorating the 200th anniversary of
the ascent of this hill by Robert Brown
naturalist to Matthew Flinders
Investigator 10 March 1802
