Page 32 - Our Favourite Walks by Brian Everingham

A short history digression. My son and I had followed in the steps of others. One is a real surprise.
Excluding our Aboriginal people, there are records that Ludwick Leichhardt, a German naturalist and
explorer of Northern Australia, camped and travelled along Jim Jim Creek in late 1845.

Reference: Leichhardt’s original hand drawn maps leading to and from his 16th November 1845
campsite on Jim Jim Creek upstream from the falls (Courtesy Rare Collection CDU Library Darwin
NT). Quoted by Dan Baschiera

https://www.russellwillis.com/bush/pdf/leichhardtpath.pdf

The great George Chaloupka, a Northern Territory expert in Aboriginal rock art, also talks of
Leichhardt’s travels by horseback.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/finding-leichhardt-in-arnhem-land-20090306-8rh0.html
According to Leichhardt’s diary the party were exhausted but he and his party would have also seen
these parts of Jim Jim creek.

Back to the walk. Is it Leichhardt’s sextant?

Compare the rock art and a photo of a sextant below.

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