John Alexander Watt

{{Short description|Australian geologist (1868–1958)}}

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John Alexander Watt (1868–1958) was an Australian geologist and mineralogist and participant of the 1894 Horn Expedition to Central Australia.{{cite book |last1=Branagan |first1=D. F. |editor1-last=Morton |editor1-first=S.R. |editor2-last=Mulvaney |editor2-first=D.J. |title=Exploring Central Australia: Society, the environment, and the 1894 Horn Expedition |date=1996 |publisher=Surrey Beatty & Sons |isbn=9780949324672 |pages=42–58 |chapter=John Alexander Watt: Geologist on the Horn Expedition to Central Australia (1894)}} Born in Parramatta, New South Wales, Watt graduated from the University of Sydney. He died in Tenterfield.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002725b.htm|title=Watt, John Alexander|last=Walker|first=Rosanne|date=|website=Encyclopedia of Australian Science|language=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-12-29}}