Captain Charles James Tyers RN FRSV was a 19th-century Anglo-Australian surveyor and explorer, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Portland and Gippsland.
22 Facts About Charles Tyers
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Charles Tyers was born in London, the son of John Charles Tyers and his wife Elizabeth nee Theobald.
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Charles Tyers served under Admiral Lord Lyons on the Blonde and Captain Bremer on the Alligator.
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Charles Tyers made a study of marine surveying and computed longitudes in the Channel, Mediterranean, West Indies and South Africa becoming recognised as an expert and in 1837 he was commissioned to survey the Port Essington area of northern Australia.
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Charles Tyers reached the rank of captain, but before he was given a command he left the navy in 1839 to join the colonial service.
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In 1839 Charles Tyers was transferred from the Royal Navy to the Colonial Service and was appointed as a government surveyor.
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Charles Tyers was instructed to ascertain the precise longitude at the mouth of the Glenelg River so that a distance to the 141st meridian could be measured.
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On 1 October 1839 Charles Tyers arrived in Melbourne from Sydney on the 'Pyramus'.
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Charles Tyers set about assembling his party which was to include Thomas Townsend, Assistant Surveyor, seven convicts and his private servant, a dray, nine bullocks and two packhorses.
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Charles Tyers used three methods for surveying: chronometric measurements from Sydney, triangulation from Melbourne and lunar observations from Portland.
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Charles Tyers set out westwards for Portland on 13 October 1840 into what was uncharted and largely unknown territory.
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Charles Tyers crossed the Moorabool River north of Geelong near Buckley's Falls.
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Charles Tyers then went north of Lake Corangamite and Lake Colac which he named and ascended Derrinallum or Mount Elephant twenty miles to the west on the 26th.
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The newly appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands Charles Tyers arrived in Gippsland in early 1844, and was involved in legal, moral and cultural problems of a different sort than what he found in Werten District the year before.
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Some time later a boating party on the Gippsland Lakes, which included Charles Tyers, was searching for a spot to land to gather dry sticks.
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The worst killing during Charles Tyers' period happened on a tributary of the Snowy River between today's Orbost and Marlo.
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Charles Tyers was responsible for inaugurating government in Gippsland and virtually became 'King' of the huge isolated area, where lawlessness had been common and the Aboriginals hostile.
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Charles Tyers made a map showing holdings and their occupants and sent it to La Trobe in July 1844 with a descriptive and statistical report.
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Charles Tyers regulated the liquor trade and on his recommendations two police stations and a Court of Petty Sessions were established and two justices of the peace appointed.
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Charles Tyers improved Port Albert to cope with the growing trade with Hobart.
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Charles Tyers made extensive explorations of Gippsland, always making his land valuations after trigonometrical survey and collection of geological specimens.
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Charles Tyers moved from Old Port to Eagle Point, where in 1849 he married Georgina Caroline, sister of William Scott, a grazier at Swan Reach.