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Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search party
Dr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Historian Philip Jones re-examines evidence found in the Simpson Desert in 1938, which prompted a search for the Ludwig Leichhardt’s lost expedition. He argues the search party may have discovered an Aboriginal burial site.
Ludwig Leichhardt series
- Overview of the National Museum of Australia’s purchase of the Leichhardt nameplateMatthew Higgins, National Museum of Australia
- He nearly made it: Leichhardt’s ‘grand plan’ of 1848Dr Darrell Lewis, Australian National University
- Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plateDavid Hallam, National Museum of Australia
- Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorerProfessor Rod Home, University of Melbourne
- Leichhardt as scientist and diaristDr Tom Darragh, Museum Victoria
- Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian cultureProfessor Henry Nix, Australian National University
- Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search partyDr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
- ‘A very tolerable addition’: Leichhardt’s mapping of the Balonne RiverDr Martin Woods, National Library of Australia
- Leichhardt in Australian literatureDr Susan Martin, La Trobe University
- Leichhardt panel discussionDr Tom Darragh, David Hallam, Matthew Higgins, Professor Rod Home, Dr Philip Jones, Dick Kimber, Dr Darrell Lewis, Dr Susan Martin, Professor Henry Nix and Dr Martin Woods
