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| | Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de [Count Strzelecki] (1797 - 1873) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography ... |
 | | STRZELECKI, Sir PAUL EDMUND DE (1797-1873), explorer and scientist, was born on 20 July 1797 at Gluszyna, near Poznan, Western Poland, the son of poor gentry, without land or title. |
 | | Strzelecki then went to Van Diemen's Land, where he became a close friend of the Franklins and did important work as explorer, geologist, and scientific farmer, and like the earlier Lhotsky made analyses of coal deposits. |
 | | Strzelecki thought it would be an important aid to the immigration of capital and men. |
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