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Cecil Madigan

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is a meteoric impact crater. In 1939 he led the first major expedition across the Simpson Desert. Although he was not the first to cross the desert, he has become known as the last of the "classic" explorers of central Australia. For many years he worked as a lecturer in geology at the University
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Descendants include David Madigan (deceased) and his two children, Sir Russell Madigan (deceased) and his five children, Neith Madigan (deceased) and her four children, Robourne Madigan (deceased), Rosemary Madigan (deceased) and her three children.
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Born to contractor and fruitgrower Thomas Madigan and Mary Dixie (née Finey) a teacher, Cecil Madigan was the oldest of two sons and two daughters. He was raised by his mother as his father had died in the
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Madigan, C.T. 1930. An aerial reconnaissance into the southeastern portion of central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, session 1928-1929,
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Throughout the 1930s, Madigan participated in numerous aerial surveys of the "trackless areas" of Central Australia, during which time he named the
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Cecil Madigan's frostbitten face, Adelie Land (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914), by
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Madigan's Account: The Mawson Expedition : the Antarctic Diaries of C.T. Madigan, 1911-1914
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Madigan, C. T. 1931. The physiography of the Western Macdonnell Ranges, Central Australia.
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He died of Coronary Vascular disease in Adelaide, on 14 January 1947.
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Memorial plaque to Cecil Madigan on North Terrace, Adelaide
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in France during the First World War. He saw action at the
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after the president of the South Australian branch of the
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Madigan, C. T. 1936. The Australian sand-ridge deserts.
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C. T. Madigan

Frank Hurley
Renmark, South Australia
William Benjamin Chaffey
Kalgoorlie, Western Australian
Goldfields
Prince Alfred College
University of Adelaide
Rhodes Scholarship
Magdalen College
Oxford
Douglas Mawson
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Hobart
SY Aurora
Commonwealth Bay
Adélie Land
Antarctica
George V Land
Polar Medal
Royal Engineers
Battle of Loos
Battle of the Somme
Simpson Desert
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
Alfred Allen Simpson
Boxhole crater

Adelaide

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