Last changed 1 September 2021

BMR 1965 field mapping
photographs by Dr EN (Ted) Milligan

directory with EN Milligan photographs

ENM slide captions [comments in square brackets added later by DGN]


-ENM

no.

description

6

1

de Bavay Hills, trig, out from Granites; used 22 Hornet on rabbits [trig surrounded by boulders]

7

10

Buchanan Hills - BMR fire plough track heading S (track to leave tank) (fire plough borrowed from Hooker Ck)

8

11

Buchanan Hills [more distant, no track visible]

9

17

Buchanan Hills [oblique aerial view, to NW?]

10

16

convoy heading S — 2 Land Rovers followed by truck [yellow; from mid-distant gravelly rise]

11

5

Duck Ponds area, drafting and general office caravan [silver, towed by SWB yellow Land Rover with tropical roof, bars from front to roof corners]

12

14

edge of Duck Ponds - near #5 [a few trees, some dead, a few termite mounds, grey soil]

13

9

Tertiary limestones, Karst formation on continuation of Lander

14

15

field hand (not Brian Dietrich) [man in brown T-shirt with 2 pairs of vertical white stripes, dark shorts] standing by red soil pyramidal termite mound about 2m high, in spinifex plain]

15

18

dunes N of Lake Surprise, real dunes [oblique aerial view]

16

12

eroded sand dunes, around the SW of South Lake Woods sheet, from helicopter [along line of dunes]

17

13

cairn ca. 130°30' Long. — Cambrian — didn’t land [on pinnacle of rock, horizontal aerial view]

18

6

beside the east-west access track, Milligan on B25 (missing port? engine); field hand took picture [1945-1974 B25 Mitchell page]

Reference

Visit from EN Milligan, 24/12/1991

Milligan, Edward Norman. 1959. The geology of North Hokianga district. MSc thesis, University of Auckland. https://catalogue.library.auckland.ac.nz/permalink/f/gkavgk/uoa_alma21193901150002091

Citation when inducted into the Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame, 2008:
http://mannkal.org/downloads/guests/blaineywinsmininghonours.pdf

Edward Norman Milligan (1932–1999) – New Zealand-born Milligan was one of the most successful coal exploration geologists of his time. His extensive knowledge and detailed approach to exploration prompted the discovery of new coal-bearing basins and the development of eight major coal mines.

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