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References
- ↑ "Bloods Range". Northern Territory Place Names Register. Government of the Northern Territory. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ Ernest Giles (2004). Australia Twice Traversed. Whitefish, United States: Kessinger Publishing. p. 206. ISBN 9781419108327.
- ↑ "Man Who Climbed Mt. Unapproachable". The Mail. Adelaide. 22 April 1933. p. 2.
- ↑ Geographical Society of Australasia (9 November 1889). "Mr. Tietkens's Explorations". The South Australian Chronicle. Adelaide. p. 5.
- ↑ William H. Tietkens (1891), Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, C. E. Bristow, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, p. 50
