What is Peter Warburton?
'''Peter Egerton Warburton''' (1813—1889) was an [[English people|English]] naval and military officer who became famous as an explorer of [[Australia]]. He served as the Commissioner of Police in South Australia.<ref name=handbook>{{cite book|last=Gordon|first=David J., and Ryan, Victor H.|title=Handbook of South Australia|year=1914|publisher=South Australian Government|location=Adelaide, South Australia|pages=308}}</ref> He was employed by the [[South Australia]]n government to replace [[Benjamin Herschel Babbage]], because they felt Babbage was moving to slowly.<ref>{{cite book |url= http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030066b.htm |title=Babbage, Benjamin Herschel (1815 - 1878)|first= G.W.|last=Syme |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography Online |year=1969 |accessdate=17 June 2011}}</ref> Warburton led several trips into the desert between 1856 and 1874. He found a gap through the ring of salt lakes north of [[Adelaide]] in South Australia, which had blocked northward exploration.<ref name=deasey>{{cite book |url= http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060376b.htm |title=Warburton, Peter Egerton (1813 - 1889) |first=Denison |last=Deasey |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography Online |year=1976 |accessdate=16 June 2011}}</ref> He visited the [[artesian aquifer|artesian]] springs which he named Coward Springs. He also explored the [[Davenport Range]] which he named after Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian [[politician]].<ref name=deasey/> In 1872 he became the first person to cross Australia from the centre, at [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice Springs]] to the coast of [[Western Australia]].<ref name=deasey/> He had to cross the [[Great Sandy Desert]], a trip which left him blind in one eye. He was so ill he completed the trip tied to his [[camel]]. They were forced to eat most of their camels. He said they only reason the group survived was through the skills of Charley, their [[Indigenous Australian]] guide, Charley.<ref name=deasey/> Warburton was made a [[Order of St Michael and St Geor