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Travel & Adventure – Offroad
Gibson Desert
Lost in time
Search for lost springs in the Australian Gibson Desert. Adventure in the outback.
In 1977, the last free-living, nomadic Aboriginal Warri and Yatunga people in the Gibson Desert west of the Calvert Range were saved from dying of thirst.
This marked the end of 60,000 years of Australian history. The Aborigines kept the vital waterholes open on their migrations and torched the huge spinifex areas. Even Australia’s fauna had become accustomed to this culture.
On the expedition, we will take photos and film documents of flora and fauna, and survey old survey lines and forgotten mine tracks for HEMA Maps. We have studied several diaries of old expeditions and will try to find the ‚lost‘ campsites, outcrops and springs.
Lake Christopher on our vaguely planned route, for example, is a landmark in the ‚Lasseter legend‘, who set out in 1930 and found a fabulous ‚gold reef‘ with ‚gold nuggets as big as pigeon eggs’… The reef was never rediscovered, if it ever existed.
Our expedition will end at Kata Tjuta (‚The Olgas‘ at Uluru) a well-known landmark for the old explorers and prospectors.
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