This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Prussian naturalist and explorer Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt who arrived in Sydney in 1842 with the intention of exploring the inland of Australia.

He undertook three major expeditions: a privately-funded overland expedition from the Darling Downs to Port Essington (1844 to 1845), an unsuccessful attempt, in 1846, to cross the country from east to west; he repeated this attempt in 1848, but this expedition resulted in the disappearance of Leichhardt and his entire party; no remains have ever been found.

Leichhardt Crescent in Fannie Bay recalls one of the most authoritative early recorders of the country's interior.