Aboriginal tracker
（重定向自Black tracker）
![Portrait of 'John Piper', an Aboriginal tracker who accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell in his expedition across the Great Dividing Range](/Images/godic/202412/24/Aboriginal_tracker_piper2836.jpg"){kind=tracking}
![Members of the Queensland Native Police who assisted in the search of bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang](/Images/godic/202412/24/Queensland_Native_Police2836.jpg")
In the years following British settlement in Australia, aboriginal trackers or black trackers, as they became known, were enlisted by settlers to assist them in navigating their way through the Australian landscape. The trackers' hunter-gatherer lifestyle gave rise to excellent tracking skills which were advantageous to settlers in assisting them in finding food and water and locating missing persons or capturing bushrangers.