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William Landsborough (c.1825 – 1886), explorer, was born in Ayrshire
Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a registration county, and former counties of Scotland in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine, North Ayrshire....
, Scotland
Scotland

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 and went to Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 when a young man. He took up land in the New England district of New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 but had to abandon it because it was unproductive. When gold was discovered in 1851, he went to the diggings and had some success. He returned to the land again in 1853 in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
. With Nathaniel Buchanan
Nathaniel Buchanan

File:Nathaniel Buchanan.jpgNathaniel Buchanan was an Australian pioneer pastoralist, drover and explorer....
 he explored the tributaries of the Fitzroy River, Queensland in 1859.






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William Landsborough (c.1825 – 1886), explorer, was born in Ayrshire
Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a registration county, and former counties of Scotland in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine, North Ayrshire....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 and went to Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 when a young man. He took up land in the New England district of New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 but had to abandon it because it was unproductive. When gold was discovered in 1851, he went to the diggings and had some success. He returned to the land again in 1853 in Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
. With Nathaniel Buchanan
Nathaniel Buchanan

File:Nathaniel Buchanan.jpgNathaniel Buchanan was an Australian pioneer pastoralist, drover and explorer....
 he explored the tributaries of the Fitzroy River, Queensland in 1859. Bad seasons, however, resulted in his losing all his pastoral interests in 1860. He did some exploring, and traced the Gregory and Herbert
Herbert River

The Herbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it is named after Robert Herbert , the first Premiers of Queensland....
 rivers to their sources. In August 1861 he was placed in charge of an expedition to search for Burke and Wills, starting from the Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulf of Carpentaria

File:Gulf of Carpentaria map.pngFile:Gulf-of-Carpentaria-Australia-Otto-Petri-1859-Rotterdam.jpgThe Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea ....
. In the following November, Landsborough was presented with a service of plate valued at £500, and subsequently visited India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 and Europe
Europe

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. The Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a United Kingdom learned society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical sciences, under the patronage of William IV of the United Kingdom....
 presented him with a gold watch for finding a practicable route from the north to the south of Australia.

Landsborough returned to Australia and in 1865 became a member of the Queensland legislative council for one session. Towards the end of that year he was appointed police magistrate for the district of Burke
Burke

Burke may refer to:...
. Finding Burketown extremely unhealthy he made Sweers Island his headquarters and from there did much local exploring. In June 1872, he was made inspector of brands for the Moreton district and held this position for the remainder of his life.

A few years before his death the Queensland parliament voted him £2000 for his services as an explorer, and with this he purchased a pastoral property at Caloundra. He died there in 1886.

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