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About Percy Trezise
- Percy Trezise AM (28 January 1923 – 11 May 2005) was an Australian pilot, painter, explorer and writer as well as, notably, a discoverer, documenter and historian of Aboriginal rock art.
- He was born in Tallangatta, Victoria but is associated especially with Far North Queensland and the rock art galleries of the Cape York Peninsula.
- He died in Cairns, Queensland. Trezise was born in Tallangatta (northern Victoria), of Cornish descent, and attended a bush school followed by Albury Highschool.
- His interest in Aboriginal people began when he won a copy of the Red Centre written by Findlayson during his years at highschool.
- During World War II Trezise served in the Royal Australian Air Force, surviving the crash of a Wackett trainer in August 1942.
- From 1956 he worked in northern Australia as an airline pilot for Ansett and the Cairns Aerial Ambulance.
- From the air he learned to identify areas likely to contain Aboriginal rock art, which he subsequently explored on foot.
- During the 1960s he regularly overflew Dunk Island attempting to locate the Aboriginal galleries mentioned by E.
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- Banfield in his Confessions of a Beachcomber (1908) and later walked in to find them based on his aerial observations. He was a friend of writer Xavier Herbert, artists Ray Crooke and Ron Edwards and a collaborator with Aboriginal artist Dick Roughsey in a series of children’s picture books.
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