An unusual contribution to the Australian weather scene during the nineteenth century was made by a man who was not primarily occupied with meteorology, but was in fact the Surveyor General of South Australia during the mid-1860s. George Woodroffe Goyder was a ‘small man of unimpeachable character’ who had come to South Australia in 1851. By dint of hard work and attention to detail he had progressed through the Colonial Engineers Office to the prestigious position of Surveyor General in 1861.
Early in the 1860s, much of the good
