Alexander Hutchinson Salmond

Alexander Hutchinson "Alec" Salmond (1850 – March 1924) was a Scottish surveyor who was involved in surveying the borders between Queensland and South Australia.

Early life Alexander Hutchinson Salmond was born in Scotland in 1850.

Surveying career His career was spent working in the remote Australian outback. Salmond became a licensed surveyor in 1878 and was based in Cunnamulla, Queensland. which was never constructed. The Trans-Australian Railway was built in 1917, but did not pass through Queensland.

Salmond was lured to the Western Australian goldfields in the early 1890s. Thereafter he worked in Kalgoorlie and in Carnarvon in the northwest. In 1903 he led a private expedition into the Kimberley region. Setting out from Wyndham he explored most of the rich area lying north of the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges to the westward of Cambridge Gulf.

Later life Salmond died in March 1924 in Fremantle, Western Australia. He was about seventy four years of age at the time of his death.

Legacy The Salmond River (near Wyndham) is named after him.