Robert Austin
From Engineering Heritage Australia
AUSTIN, Robert (1825-1905)
Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Robert Austin
After arriving in Fremantle in 1840, Austin worked as an Architect in Perth in 1841, as an Engineer and Surveyor in Toodyay in 1846. He surveyed the line of railway from Warnbro Sound to the Darling Scarp which Thomas Peel proposed in 1848.
After exploring around Mount Magnet and Island Lake Austin as an Assistant Government Surveyor in 1854, and recording his experiences in 'Journal of expedition to the North West, Ju1y November 1854', he resigned from the Survey Office in 1860 and moved to Queensland.
References:
GG16/7/1847; 7/11/1854, p4; 24/4/1860; 14/10/1862, p1.
COY pp16 18
DWA 1, p28.
