It is no doubts the best, essential, fairly short material presenting P.E. Strzelecki as Explorer and Scientist.It was written by the famous author Lech Paszkowski. This chapter was initially published in his book Poles in Australia and Oceania 1790-1940 published in 1987 by ANY Press Sydney, Oxford, New York. Later on it was republished by the Rocznik Muzeum i Archiwum Polonii Australijskiej Vol. 2, and the chapter has been extracted from this source.