George Jiří Chaloupka OAM

Order of Australia

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, FAHA

Australian Academy of the Humanities

The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia...

 (6 September 1932 – 18 October 2011) was an expert on Indigenous Australian rock art.

Chaloupka was born in Týniště nad Orlicí

Týnište nad Orlicí

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, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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. Arriving in Australia in 1949, Chaloupka joined the Northern Territory Museum in 1973, and subsequently documented more than 3500 rock sites.

In 2008 the George Chaloupka Fellowship was established "to promote and support research and conservation of Aboriginal rock art located in Arnhem Land Plateau region in the Northern Territory of Australia." Chaloupka died in Darwin.

External links

• George Chaloupka: Researcher on the rock art of Australia, French Ministry of Culture and Communication
• ABC