Mount Augustus - Culture and History

On 3 June 1858 Francis Gregory, during his epic 107 day journey through the Gascoyne, became the first European to climb the mountain. Some weeks later he named the monolith after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory (1819-1905). At the time Augustus was on his last expedition, an unsuccessful foray into western Queensland in an attempt to discover the whereabouts of Ludwig Leichhardt.