Case file · Folklore / legend
Lasseter's Reef
Harold Lasseter led a 1930 expedition to relocate a fabulous gold reef he claimed to have found in Central Australia decades earlier. He died alone near the Petermann Ranges in early 1931; the reef was never found.
1931 CE · -24.80, 129.10 · status: legend
The sceptical view
Lasseter's own story changed over time, and many historians doubt the reef existed; his diary survived and records his last weeks.