10. Leichhardt party on edge of desert |
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| Title : | 10. Leichhardt party on edge of desert |
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| Creator : | Kinnear, A. C. | ||
| Source : | Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218/9/1 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1938 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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From the Advertiser, 22 August 1938. This, the first update transmitted from the party in the field, was sent from their camp at the Moorilperina waterhole on the edge of the Simpson Desert, and 40 miles from Mount Dare Station. |
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| Coverage year : | 1938 |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | Connell, Gordon. The mystery of Ludwig Leichhardt. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1980 Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, Adelaide : Rigby, 1972, pp. 56-60 Mountford, Charles P. 'Papers relating to the South Australian Government Expedition to search for the remains of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt', PRG 1218/9 Price, A. Grenfell. The Mystery of Leichhardt : the South Australian government expedition of 1938, South Australia : Royal Geographical Society, 1937-38 Roderick, Colin. Leichhardt, the dauntless explorer, North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1988 |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt National Museum of Australia. Leichhardt: the man, the mystery, the science, the history [symposium held in 2007] |
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