Len Beadell

Len Beadell

Leonard (Len) Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS (b. West Pennant Hills, New South Wales 21 April 1923 - 12 May 1995) was a surveyor, roadbuilder (some 6500 km), bushman, artist and author, responsible for opening up the last remaining isolated desert areas (some 2.5 million square kilometres) of central Australia from 1947 to 1963. Len is sometimes called "the last true Australian explorer".