{"id":23412,"date":"2016-07-14T02:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=23412"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:54:44","slug":"lasseter-and-his-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/lasseter-and-his-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasseter and his Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Australia, during the depression of the 1930&#8217;s we had the genesis of one of the most incredible, unbelievable adventure mystery &#8220;gothic&#8221; discovery stories to ever emerge, known as &#8220;Lasseter&#8217;s Reef&#8221; (revolving around Harold Lasseter &#8230; <a target=\"_blank\" title='Harold Lasseter' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hubert_(Harold_Bell)_Lasseter' rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/38\/Harold_Lasseter_1915.jpg\/1200px-Harold_Lasseter_1915.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/saltypopcorn.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lasseters-Bones-Lasseter-Sitting-Down.jpg\" title=\"Image of Harold Lasseter ... thanks to http:\/\/saltypopcorn.com.au\/\"><\/img>biography<\/a>), who purported to have found a 15 kilometer reef of gold west of Alice Springs in the <a target=\"_blank\" title='Area around which Lasseter is supposed to have discovered a reef of gold' href='https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/maps\/place\/Uluru\/@-23.4958024,131.9014584,8.94z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x2b236c2b6d625223:0x43a8cd4d9bc55f21!8m2!3d-25.3444277!4d131.0368822' rel=\"noopener\">Peterson Ranges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title='Warren Brown information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Brown_(cartoonist)' rel=\"noopener\">Warren Brown<\/a>, author of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lasseter's Gold by Warren Brown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=lasseter%27s+gold+isbn+9780733631757&#038;sca_esv=6fec179e4fda7293&#038;sxsrf=AHTn8zraxe1QhLn-f_fn2O5sFIRXHih_9A%3A1747896841960&#038;source=hp&#038;ei=CcouaJyUObmo0-kPpcz1oAw&#038;iflsig=ACkRmUkAAAAAaC7YGdzRswU_fvkqUJj3Z46wBl_Zaq9s&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjcvPiSv7aNAxU51DQHHSVmHcQQ4dUDCBk&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=lasseter%27s+gold+isbn+9780733631757&#038;gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IiJsYXNzZXRlcidzIGdvbGQgaXNibiA5NzgwNzMzNjMxNzU3MggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGKIEGIkFMggQABiABBiiBEi0AlAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAHiAaAB4gGqAQMyLTG4AQPIAQCYAgGgAu0BmAMAiAYBkgcDMi0xoAeLA7IHAzItMbgH7QHCBwMyLTHIBwc&#038;sclient=gws-wiz\" data-href='https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/?client=firefox-b-ab#q=lasseter%27s+gold+isbn+9780733631757&#038;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLVT9c3NEwqTyvLMcw10xLKTrbST8rPzwYTVpnFSXmPGIO5BV7-uCcs5TVpzclrjC5cWBQJ6XGxueaVZJZUCqlwCUqhmqrBIMXPhSrEAwALbhqIewAAAA' rel=\"noopener\"><i>Lasseter\u2019s Gold<\/i><\/a> (ISBN 9780733631757), joins <a target=\"_blank\" title='Richard Fidler information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Fidler' rel=\"noopener\">Richard Fidler<\/a> on <i>Conversations<\/i> at <a target=\"_blank\" title='ABC Radio Australia' href='http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/' rel=\"noopener\">ABC Radio<\/a> on 20th July 2016 for a <a target=\"_blank\" title='Podcast that will work for a few days from date of blog posting ... else use previous link to find the podcast, as available' href='https:\/\/radio.abc.net.au\/programitem\/pea357y9aL' rel=\"noopener\">story<\/a> you shouldn&#8217;t miss.  This last link should work for a few days from this broadcast date &#8230; else use previous link to find the podcast, as available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Australia, during the depression of the 1930&#8217;s we had the genesis of one of the most incredible, unbelievable adventure mystery &#8220;gothic&#8221; discovery stories to ever emerge, known as &#8220;Lasseter&#8217;s Reef&#8221; (revolving around Harold Lasseter &#8230; biography), who purported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/lasseter-and-his-reef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[49,1936,1935,1939,1940,1203,1311],"class_list":["post-23412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-trips","tag-abc-702","tag-depression","tag-discovery","tag-lasseter","tag-lasseters-reef","tag-story","tag-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68418,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412\/revisions\/68418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}