Calvert expedition

The Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition took place in central and northern Western Australia in 1896 and 1897, using camels as the principal means of transport.

The expedition was financed by Albert Frederick Calvert (1872–1946), a London-based mining engineer and author,[1] and conducted under the auspices of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.

Other aims included, as well as the collection of scientific specimens, finding evidence of the fate of the lost Leichhardt expedition of 1848, and opening a stock route between the Northern Territory and the Western Australian goldfields.

In early August, they were advancing into the Great Sandy Desert and having problems with the availability of water and with camels falling sick through the consumption of poisonous plants.

[3] A stained glass window commemorating Wells and Jones was unveiled by the Governor on 27 June 1937 in North Adelaide Congregational Church.