Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
The great lost-gold legend of Australia. In 1929 Harold Lasseter claimed he had, years earlier, stumbled on a reef of gold miles long in the trackless desert of central Australia, and led an expedition to refind it. It failed; Lasseter wandered off alone, and died in the desert in 1931, his diary insisting to the end that the reef was real. Prospectors have hunted “Lasseter’s Reef” ever since across some of the most remote and lethal country on Earth, and never found it. Almost certainly a mirage or a lie, but it has cost lives. Told as the folklore it is.
The deserts of central Australia (near the NT/WA/SA corner). Source: Australia’s most famous lost-gold legend; men have died hunting it. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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