Horn expedition

[1] It took place from May to August 1894, with expedition members first traveling by train from Adelaide to the railhead at Oodnadatta in South Australia, then using camels for transport to traverse over 3000 km of largely uncharted country from Oodnadatta through the Finke River basin to Alice Springs and the Macdonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory.

The area studied included the country of the Arrernte and Luritja people, whose assistance and goodwill was crucial to the success of the expedition through the provision of natural history specimens, artefacts and information.

[2] Members of the expedition,[3] with their responsibilities, included: Other personnel were two collectors, one of whom was ornithologist George Keartland, a cook and four cameleers.

Mounted Constable Ernest Cowle led the younger members of the Horn Expedition across the Lake Amadeus saltpan to Uluru and then return across the McDonnell Ranges in June 1894.

Field, be honoured in the naming of Pseudomys fieldi,[6] referred to as the Alice Springs mouse until it became locally extinct.