Ernest Favenc (21 October 1845[1] – 14 November 1908) was an explorer of Australia, a journalist and historian. Favenc was born in Walworth, Surrey, England. Of Huguenot descent, he was the son of Abraham George Favenc, merchant, and his wife Emma, née Jones. He was educated at the Werderscher Gymnasium, Berlin and at Temple College, Cowley, Oxfordshire.[1] Favenc arrived in New South Wales in 1864[1], and, after being in the colony for about a year, in a commercial position, he afterwards worked in the pastoral industry in the frontier squatting districts of Queensland. Favenc wrote under the pseudonym of "Dramingo", often for the Queenslander, and was an accomplished pencil sketcher. In 1878 he was selected to explore the country along the western border of Queensland to Darwin to see if a railway could be constructed and in the early 1880s also undertook expeditions in the country to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and north-west of Western Australia. He is chiefly remembered for his exploration, part of the European Exploration of Australia, but he also published romances, children's stories and verse as well as several books on exploration, the most extensive being The History of Australian Exploration. On the original launch of this book in 1888 the The Daily Telegraph (Australia) reported... Favenc's first publication was The Great Austral Plain in 1887, The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics appeared in 1893, followed by The Secret of the Australian Desert (a short novel) in 1895, Marooned on Australia and The Moccasins of Silence, both in 1896. Favenc died in Sydney in 1908. Serle, Percival (1949). "Favenc, Ernest". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogF.html#favenc1.  Additional resourcecs listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography: