Henry Hampden Dutton

[2] Dutton and Aunger again left Adelaide on 30 June 1908 in a similar vehicle and were joined en route by Ernest Allchurch (c.1870–1932) the Telegraph Officer from Alice Springs.

[6] Harry accompanied acclaimed geologist, Sir Edgeworth David, on an exploratory mission to Finke River to explore evidence of an ice age in Australia.

[8] His son, Geoffrey, described him in his autobiography as, "short, witty and jolly, with brown eyes in a genial round face, smoking cigarettes and cigars incessantly.

He loved the vulgarity of music-hall jokes and songs, and French ashtrays in the shape of a little wooden lavatory...."[9] He and T. L. Browne purchased Corona Station in 1910, and sold it to Sidney Kidman in 1917.

[10] Harry and Emily bought Kalymna House in the early 1920s to provide an Adelaide home for their sons, John and Richard, while they studied at St. Peter's College.

The Advertiser wrote of the pair, "The hazardous undertaking shows that the two gentlemen have confidence in motor traction to surmount the difficulties of a journey, a large portion of which must necessarily be through roadless country.

[17] On 27 December, Dutton and Aunger telegraphed that "it is impossible to proceed further than Tennant Creek owing to heavy rains ahead.

"[18] The car was left at Tennant Creek, as the pair returned to Oodnadatta by pack horses, the plan being to reach Port Darwin after the wet season.

[18][19] Dutton and Aunger again left Adelaide on 30 June 1908 in a similar vehicle and were joined en route by Ernest Allchurch (c.1870–1932) the Telegraph Officer from Alice Springs.