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Grave of James Poole [B 7134] • Photograph

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Summary

Grave of James Poole. Monument and marked tree at J. Poole's grave, near Milparinka Monument erected by the people of Mt. Sturt Station. The monument was erected by local people in 1883. James Poole was the second-in-command on Charles Sturt's expedition 1844-46. Poole died July 1845, as he was leading a small contingent of the expedition back to Adelaide. This party returned to the main camp at Depot Glen and Poole was buried beneath a grevillea or bloodwood tree, which was then blazed with his initials and the year of his death. The tree still stands today. While explorers usually blazed trees to mark the position of their camps, and their passage across the land, sometimes trees were blazed for other reasons, such as marking the lonely bush grave, or more famously in the case of the explorers Burke and Wills, with the instructions to dig beneath the tree for supplies and instructions.

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Physical description

Photograph; 8.1 cm x 5.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

1935

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Poole, James, -1845
Sepulchral monuments -- Australia, Central

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Digitisation information

Date

10/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,127 x 3,261 pixels (6.9 MP)

Size

6.96 MB

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