01. Skeletons in the desert |
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Title : | 01. Skeletons in the desert |
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Source : | Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218 | ||
Date of creation : | 1938 | ||
Format : | Diary | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
The Chief Secretary, and members of a 1938 expedition that travelled to the Simpson Desert to investigate skeletons, thought by some to be the remain's of Ludwig Leichhardt and his expedition party. Left to right: Sir George Ritchie (Chief Secretary), Dr. Grenfell Price, CP Mountford, AD Smith and Edwin Lowe. In 1938 Charles Mountford was asked to join an expedition to examine relics found in the northeast of the state near Mount Dare Station. The relics were found by station owner Edwin Lowe, who believed them to be the remains of a party of Europeans. |
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Related names : | Lowe, Edwin Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848 Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 Price, A. Grenfell (Archibald Grenfell), 1892-1977 Ritchie, George, Sir, 1864-1944 Smith, Arthur Dickinson |
Coverage year : | 1938 |
Region : | Adelaide city |
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] |