The name Mount Godwin Austen is for the peak's first surveyor, Col. H.H. Godwin Austen, a 19th-century English geographer.
It was named by the first surveyor of the Colorado plateau, Captain Clarence Dutton, who described it as "the sublimest thing on earth".
Colonel William Light was South Australia's first surveyor general, and in 1836 he laid out the gridiron city of one square mile, with a green belt of 1,700 acres of parkland separating the city from its suburbs.
The site, chosen in 1836 by William Light (the colony's first surveyor general), is on slightly rising ground along the Torrens River, which divides it into a southern business district and a northern residential section.
Light was the first surveyor-general of Adelaide, laying out the city in 1836 to a regimented pattern and surrounding it with parklands, with the objective of creating a southern Utopia.
King was appointed the first surveyor of Washington, D.C., with his father and younger brother later holding the posts.
Bullitt was the paternal granddaughter of Alexander Scott Bullitt, the first lieutenant governor of Kentucky, and the maternal granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, the first surveyor in the state of Kentucky.
It was designed by architect Vlastimil Koubek, and named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first surveyor and designer of the street layout of the city.
The gully itself was discovered soon after the establishment of Adelaide, and Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor General of South Australia, was said to have "decided on the site for Adelaide when viewing the plains from the hills near Waterfall Gully".
A second surveyor performed a 5% re-survey of the sampled households to check the reliability of the survey results.
