Henry James Evans (1912–1990), Leading exploration geologist and discoverer of the Weipa bauxite deposits in 1955
Evans was unaware at the time that the striking red cliffs along the coast had been remarked on much earlier when the Dutch ship Duyfken under Willem Janszoon charted the shores of Gulf of Carpentaria, making landfall at the Pennefather River in the Gulf of Carpentaria (the first authenticated European discovery of Australia), and again, in 1802, by Matthew Flinders.
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After more work in other parts of Australia, he discovered another important bauxite deposit in the Paragominas region of Brazil.
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