Tietkens hoped to discover a supply channel to Lake Amadeus from hills to the north-west, expecting that this might open a reliable route to the north-west coast settlements. He succeeded in proving that it did not exist.
This expedition discovered Lake Macdonald (Karrkurutinyja), the Kintore Range, Mount Leisler, Mount Rennie, the Cleland Hills, defined the western borders of Lake Amadeus, and photographed Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga) for the first time.
Features named by Tietkens, with the source of the name, include:[2]
Lake Macdonald, named for Mr A. C. Macdonald, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographical Society.
Kintore Range, named for Lord Kintore, governor of South Australia.
Mount Leisler, named for Louis Leisler, a financial supporter of Tietkens.
Mount Rennie, named for Professor Rennie of Adelaide University.
The expedition collected new species of plants and rock samples allowing the South Australian government geologist to compile a 'geological sketch' of the country traversed.
^ abChinnock, R.J. (Bob) (2007). Eremophila and allied genera : a monograph of the plant family Myoporaceae (1st ed.). Dural, NSW: Rosenberg. pp. 425–427. ISBN9781877058165.
^ abBrown, Andrew; Buirchell, Bevan (2011). A field guide to the eremophilas of Western Australia (1st ed.). Hamilton Hill, W.A.: Simon Nevill Publications. p. 275. ISBN9780980348156.
