LOST REEF?
Lasseter was a Sydney man who in 1930 claimed to have discovered, about 1897, an incredibly rich gold reef somewhere in Central Australia—he would not say exactly where. In 1930 he and an expedition set out from Alice Springs to find the gold. When Lasseter seemed to wander most of the expedition withdrew. Paul Johns, with a string of camels, stayed for a while; but alter a quarrel and a fight, left Lasseter. i
There were stories that Lasseter had secretly left the area and gone to America; but in 1931 Robell Buck reported that he had found and buried Lasseter's body. Evei since, periodic expeditions have set out in search of “Lasseter’s lost reef.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 10
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