(перевести грамотно, по всем правилам языка) forrest was bom on 22nd august, 1847 at preston point, near bunbury, western australia, the fourth child of the ten children of william forrest and his wife margaret. john and his eight brothers were enrolled at the government school in bunbury. then he was sent to the bishop's collegiate school. in november 1863 he was apprenticed to a government land surveyor thomas carey. he completed his training successfully in december 1865 and worked as a land surveyor. between 1869 and 1874 forrest made three expeditions into the centre of australia. when john was 22 years old, he and his brother led their first expedition to the centre of australia in search of the german explorer leichhardt, who had failed to return from his expedition into the desert. forrest and his men spent nineteen weeks searching and travelled over 3 000 kilometers in the unexplored desert. he found no permanent water, no rivers and no sign of leichhardt. but he found signs of mineral deposits. forrest became the deputy surveyor-general at the age of twenty eight and also became the first premier of western australia.
Между 1869 и 1874 годом Форрест совершил 3 экспедиции в центр Австралии. Когда Джону было 22 года, он и его брат провели свою первую экспедицию в центр Австралии в поиске немецкого исследователя Лайххардта, который не вернулся со своей экспедиции в пустыню. Форрест и его напарник провели 19 недель в поисках и более 3 000 км в неисследованной пустыне. Он не нашел ни постоянной воды, ни речек, ни малейшего знака от Лайххардта. Но он нашел знаки присутствия минеральных вкладов. Форрест стал заместителем генерального землемера в возрасте 28 лет и также стал первым премьером западной Австралии.