Stuart on the move, mound by mound
Stuart Traynor following the trail of John McDouall Stuart, who became the first white man to reach Central Australia exactly 150 years ago. Perhaps the major reason for his success was Stuart’s ability to find water: Where’s Mr Stuart? Travelling north, following the line of mound springs west of Lake Eyre Stuart, Kekwick and Head [...]
Where’s Mr Stuart?
A regular update on what explorer John McDouall Stuart was doing exactly 150 years ago, with Alice Springs historian STUART TRAYNOR. Where’s Mr Stuart? Camped in a stone hut at Chambers Creek (now Stuart Creek) which runs into Lake Eyre South Stuart has spent the hot summer months of November, December and January in the [...]
Peg Nelson
Peg Nelson was about as close as you could get to a living link with the early white settlement of Central Australia. She was born when white women in the Centre were a rarity. The Alice Springs she knew as a child was “the Stuart Arms pub, a police station, a couple of stores and [...]
Alice Springs, AUSTRALIA