Leichhardt

British  

/ ˈlaɪkˌhɑːt, ˈlaiçhart /

noun

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West

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Example Sentences

For Leichhardt, initial results were poor: the “rich, mellow pear-like” flesh of the fruit, he wrote, proved to be “hot, and made our lips and tongues very sore.”

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

Leichhardt disappeared two and a half years later, at age 34, trying to cross the continent, and his experiment in eating Pandanus failed to earn it a spot in the Western canon of cuisine.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

Leichhardt Federal MP and former crocodile farmer Warren Entsch says few people understand the crocodile industry and "it's easy to bring emotional claptrap".

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2016

As a wartime physical trainer he taught the legitimate version of the sport to RAF personnel, with his first professional performance coming on a posting to Australia in 1945, in the Leichhardt stadium, Sydney.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

Leichhardt saw this river where it junctioned with the Lynd, and one of his old camps is still to be seen on the Lynd a little above this junction.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward