Michael Terry was an Australian explorer, surveyor, prospector and writer. During the First World War he served with No.2 Squadron of the RNAS Armoured Cars in Russia against the Bolsheviks, by whom he was captured at Kursk though subsequently released.
Between 1923 and 1935 he led fourteen, mainly gold prospecting, expeditions through inland Australia. Most of his books are about his expeditions, and include:
- Across Unknown Australia: a thrilling account of exploration in the Northern Territory of Australia (1925)
- Through a Land of Promise: with gun, car and camera in the heart of Northern Australia (1927)
- Hidden Wealth and Hiding People (1931)
- Untold Miles: three gold-hunting expeditions amongst the picturesque borderland ranges of Central Australia (1932)
- Sand and Sun: two gold-hunting expeditions with camels in the dry lands of Central Australia (1937)
- Bulldozer: the war role of the Department of Main Roads, New South Wales (1945), and
- War of the Warramullas (1974)
