Separation Well and cache of meat: diary 26 May 1897 |
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| Title : | Separation Well and cache of meat: diary 26 May 1897 |
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| Creator : | Rudall, William Frederick, 1861-1953 | ||
| Source : | William Frederick Rudall PRG 474/2 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1897 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
When Larry Wells reported that two of his men were missing, the Western Australian Government sent William Rudall out to search for them, in addition to Larry Wells leading his own search party. Rudall left Roebourne in December 1896 with two men and an Aboriginal tracker named Cherry. By May 1897 his search expedition was on the brink of abandoning their equipment and camels as they suffered extreme heat and other privations. They however were successful in finding Larry Wells' Separation Well where in addition to water they also found the tins of meat he had cached there. William Rudall was an experienced surveyor, who had worked in South Australia, surveying Keith before being retrenched in 1885. He moved to Western Australia and eventually took up surveying again. In his search for Charles Wells and George Jones, the lost men of the Calvert Scientific Expedition, Rudall explored some 23,000 square miles of country. The Rudall River National Park is named for him. Larry Wells however was the man who found the bodies of his men. |
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| Related names : | Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition (1896-1897) Rudall, William Frederick, 1861-1953 Wells, L.A. (Lawrence Allen), 1860-1938 Wells, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1849-1897 Jones, George Lindsay, 1879-1897 |
| Coverage year : | 1897 |
| Place : | Great Sandy Desert (WA) |
| Further reading : | Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7: equipped at the request and expense of Albert F. Calvert, Esq., F.R.G.S., London for the purpose of exploring the remaining blanks of Australia Perth [W.A.]: Government Printer, 1902 Steele, Wilfred, To the great gulf: the surveys and explorations of L.A. Wells, last Australian explorer 1860-1938 Blackwood, S.A.: Lynton, [1978] Sitters, Valerie William Rudall and the search for Charles Wells and George Jones. Geonews, vol. 6, no. 3 July/August 1999, pp. 5-10 |
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