Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Crocker, Peter

Archive Collections / Crocker, Peter
From : 01 July, 1914
To : 20 June, 1963

Peter Crocker is the son of Robert (Bob) Langdon Crocker. Crocker was born at Peterborough (SA) in July 1914. He was a student at Scotch College from 1926-1931, during which time he became the college's leading athlete. Initially Crocker preferred Geology but through his friend and Professor of Botany, JG Wood, he turned his direction towards Botany. He then spent two years at Cambridge University and travelled as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation.During World War II he was a defence scientist attached to the Ministry of Munitions.

Crocker's employment included the University of Adelaide, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Ministry of Munitions and the University of Sydney.

Crocker joined Cecil Madigan in 1937 to Central Australia to investigate Goyder's Pillar and surrounding areas in a search for deposits of alunite. At the time Crocker was a graduate in Science and a geologist and soil surveyor. See 'The Huckitta meteorite, Central Australia' by CT Madigan 1939, for further information about this expedition.

In 1939 Crocker joined Cecil Madigan and 7 other men in a scientific expedition, by camel (19) across the northern part of the Simpson Desert. They traversed 560km in 33 days. Expedition members were;

Cecil T Madigan, leader, navigator and geologist
Robert Langdon Crocker, botanist
Harold G Fletcher, Biologist
David Marshall, photographer
Robert A Simpson, wireless operator
Albert Hubbard, cook
Jack Bejah, camel driver
Andy, Aboriginal tracker
Nurie Moosha, camel driver
Ly Ly, Aboriginal man assist locating water (6 days on expedition)

Crocker died suddenly on 20 June 1963.

The collection consists of two photograph albums; SAMA 1130/1 from the 1937 expedition and SAMA 1130/2 from the 1939 expedition.

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Series SAMA1130/01 - Photograph Album - 1937
Series SAMA1130/02 - Photograph Album - 1939 Crossing the Simpson Desert
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