Career
His practice extended from Portuguese Augusta to the Roper River, a distance of approximately 2600 kilometers. The town of Renner Springs, Northern Territory, was named after him when the workers passed through the springs in 1872. In 1877, Doctor Renner saw a flock of birds while working on the Telegraph Lincolnshire and found that the birds were drawn to the area by the natural springs.
In the early 1980s, Jose Petrick, a well-known historian in the Alice Springs area, was awarded a government grant to transcribe the diaries of Doctor Renner.
The diaries were published in 1983 as The Renner.
