George Chaloupka

George Jiří Chaloupka OAM, FAHA (6 September 1932 – 18 October 2011) was an expert on Indigenous Australian rock art.^[1]

Chaloupka was born in Týniště nad Orlicí, Czechoslovakia. Arriving in Australia in 1949, Chaloupka joined the Northern Territory Museum in 1973, and subsequently documented more than 3500 rock sites.^[2]

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."^[3]^[4] Chaloupka died in Darwin.

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External links

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

Persondata
Name	Chaloupka, George
Alternative names	Chaloupka, Jiří (birth name)
Short description	Australian art historian and anthropologist
Date of birth	6 September 1932
Place of birth	Týniště nad Orlicí, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia
Date of death	18 October 2011
Place of death	Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia