Charles Gould (geologist)

Charles Gould (4 June 1834 – 15 April 1893) was the first Geological Surveyor of Tasmania 1859-69.

He was born in England He conducted three expeditions into Western Tasmania in the 1860s.

He named many of the mountains on the West Coast Range.

He also worked as a consultant geologist and land surveyor in Tasmania, the Bass Strait Islands and in New South Wales. He left Australia in late 1873 and died 20 years later, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

His father was the ornithologist John Gould.

Gould was the author of the book Mythical Monsters (1886), it is seen as an early work on cryptozoology.

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