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Myles and Milo Dunphy

Australian conservationists

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Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6947719 ↗
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Myles Dunphy and Milo Dunphy were Australian conservationists who played an important role in creating the Australian wilderness movement.

Myles Dunphy

Myles Joseph Dunphy (1891—1985) was an Australian conservationist best known for the protection of parts of the Blue Mountains National Park.

Biography

Myles Dunphy was born on 19 October 1891 and lived in Oatley, a southern suburb of Sydney, and started his wilderness publicity work in 1910. He compiled detailed maps of a number of areas of conservation interest in New South Wales. His original maps of the Blue Mountains, in particular the Coxs River and Kowmung River catchments, featured imaginative and original naming systems. Throughout his life he campaigned for wilderness areas throughout New South Wales.

His interest in bushwalking led to the foundation of the Mountain Trails Club of New South Wales, and was influential in the formation of the Sydney Bushwalkers and the Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs in 1932. He also formed the National Parks and Primitive Areas Council, and took steps to establish a professional parks service.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1976 in recognition of service to conservation, and was awarded an IUCN Packer Award for Long Merit in National Parks.

Milo Dunphy

Milo Kanangra Dunphy (1929—1996), the son of Myles Dunphy, was an Australian conservationist best known for the reinvigoration of the Australian Conservation Foundation and his political activism to preserve wilderness areas in New South Wales.

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