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for Gilles's Glen Osmond Union Mining Company, the first mine for metal-bearing ores in South Australia and perhaps Australia. He was also appointed honorary secretary of the Glenelg Pier and Warehouse Company, which had offices in Gilles Arcade, Adelaide.
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station, from where Stuart's final and successful expedition departed. James died before the party's triumphant return and Finke not long after. John Chambers, as executor of his brother's will, sold the run to
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Anna Timmermann, Andreas Finke and Wilhelmina Arndt of Germany were named as having an interest in two properties in Glenelg two years after Finke's death.
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in the Northern Territory is considered to have been named after Finke by Stuart in 1862. The tiny settlement of
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in South Australia were named after him by Stuart in 1858 and 1860 respectively. Finke Bay on the coast of the
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Finke was an energetic explorer and prospector throughout South Australia, particularly in the northern
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and is now also known by its traditional name Aputula, derived its name from the nearby Finke River.
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and three others, who entered the ballot in February 1839 for the right to purchase land in
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Other members were Gilles's ward, Emily Blunden (died 1875), who also emigrated aboard
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who arrived in the first fleet carrying British settlers there. He became an explorer,
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at Nuccaleena and Oratunga, but missed the huge deposits at
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Colonial Dynasty: The Chambers family of South Australia
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Finke, who may have been born Johann Wilhelm Finke (
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Index

South Australia
prospector
pastoralist
John McDouall Stuart
continent
/ˈfinkə/
FINK-uh
Cuxhaven
Germany
Tam O'Shanter
First Fleet of South Australia
Osmond Gilles
treasurer of the province
John Jackson Oakden
Glenelg
galena
Flinders Ranges
copper mines
Burra
Kapunda
Scottish
John McDouall Stuart
Moolooloo
Philip Levi & Co.
John Rounsevell
Currie Street, Adelaide
North Road Cemetery
Nailsworth
Finke River
Mount Finke

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