George Austin Woods

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Sketcher and sailor, was a lieutenant on board HMS Victoria which assisted the 1861 expedition to search for Burke and Wills led by William Landsborough. Two watercolour coastal views remain. While working as a seaman on the Carl, Woods was sent from Fiji to Sydney as a prisoner.
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Biography <p>sketcher and sailor, was a lieutenant on board HMS <i>_Victoria</i>_ which assisted the 1861 expedition to search for Burke and Wills led by <b>*William Landsborough</b>* . Woods drew the charts of the Albert River on the Gulf of Carpentaria where Landsborough began his overland journey south, but Landsborough's request for Woods to accompany his party as navigator was refused by the captain of the <i>_Victoria</i>_ , Commander Norman. Two watercolour coastal views are extant, <i>_The S.E. Extreme of the Colony of Victoria</i>_ and <i>_Twofold Bay, NSW</i>_ (ML). Nothing further is known of the artist apart from notes on old catalogue cards in the Mitchell Library. One states, 'Woods left for Fiji in 1871'; another, that one George Woods, a seaman on the brig <i>_Carl</i>_ , was sent from Fiji to Sydney as a prisoner in 1872.</p> <p>

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