Robert Russell (architect)
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Robert Russell was an architect and surveyor, active in Australia. He conducted the first survey of the site of the nascent settlement of Melbourne on the banks of the Yarra River in 1836, and designe
Portrait of surveyor & architect Robert Russell, about 1890
Russel designed St James Old Cathedral, Melbourne, in the 1800s.
Thomas Mitchell (explorer)
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Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsul
Portrait of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (c. 1830s)
Centenary memorial erected in 1946 at Mitchell, Queensland, to commemorate explorer Thomas Mitchell's naming of the nearby Maranoa River
Engraving of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell
The pair of French .50 calibre pistols used in the duel, now held at the National Museum of Australia