Robert Dixon (explorer)

Robert Dixon (explorer)

Infobox Person
name = Robert Dixon


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birth_date = 1800
birth_place = Darlington, County Durham, England
death_date = death date|1858|4|8|mf=y
death_place = Sydney, Australia
occupation = Surveyor
spouse = Margaret Sibly
parents = John and Elizabeth
children = 6 (names unknown)

Robert Dixon was an Australian surveyor and explorer, born in Darlington, England, in 1800. [cite conference|title=Dixon, Robert (1800-1858)|booktitle=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Louis R.|last=Cranfield|date=1966|publisher=Melbourne University|location=Melbourne, Australia|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010295b.htm|pages=309-310] In 1840, he performed a survey of Moreton Bay. [cite book|title=Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections, and Diagrams|first=Paul Edmond|last=de Strzelecki|date=1845|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|location=London, United Kingdom|pages=38]

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