Henry James Evans (7 November 1912 – 9 November 1990) was the leading exploration geologist and discoverer of the immense bauxite deposits near Weipa, on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia. Evans was born on 7...
Henry Evans may refer to: Henry Evans (Australian cricketer) (1846–?), Australian cricketer Henry Evans (English cricketer) (1857–1920), English cricketer Henry Evans (Evanion) (1832–1905), conjurer, ventriloquist and humorist Henry Evans...
The Weipa bauxite mine is a bauxite mine at Weipa on the western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. A geologist named Harry Evans discovered the vast bauxite resource in 1955. Operations commenced in 1963.
A number of notable people have the surname Evans: A list of fictional characters bearing the surname Evans is at the bottom of the page.
Robert (Bob) Evans (1939 - 2016) was a Welsh-American soccer player, coach, and referee, author, and research geologist who represented the United States Soccer Federation (now "U.S. Soccer") as an international (FIFA) referee from 1980 to 1988. He...
Harry is a male given name. Beginning as a Middle English form of Henry, in the modern era it became a diminutive for several names beginning with "Har". The Norwegian term "harry" is derived from the name.
Francis John Turner (10 April 1904 – 21 December 1985) was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College. He worked with the New Zealand Geological Survey and in 1926 he became a geology lecturer in the...
Sir Charles Andrew Cotton (24 February 1885 – 29 June 1970) was a New Zealand geologist and geomorphologist, described as one of the leading scientists that New Zealand has produced.
