Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[SouthAussie]

Thanks so much. It just puts a different perspective on the 'remote' position for me. I mean, I realise it IS remote but I hadn't realised until now there were other dwellings so close by.

ETA
I believe you can request a blur on google maps for privacy reasons.

I don't think the other buildings are dwellings. From the photos I have seen in recent articles they look more like equipment sheds and shearing sheds.

imo

 

[tedtink]

I don't think the other buildings are dwellings. From the photos I have seen in recent articles they look more like equipment sheds and shearing sheds.

imo

Agree on the buildings close by, but I'm curious about the blurred pic.

 

[Luke46]

Helicopter with thermal imaging on first night would have been a very high chance of finding him. 100 people searching each day since. It’s not thick bush. I’m thinking human intervention here - possible accident and cover up. Playing outside unsupervised - possible to be hit by the car of a worker or family member? Falling into a dam etc feels unlikely at this point also especially since they have been searched.

 

[Itz_CrimsonYT]

I don't think the other buildings are dwellings. From the photos I have seen in recent articles they look more like equipment sheds and shearing sheds.

imo

Still, he could've assumed it was his house and went inside

 

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Aboriginal tracker helping to find missing boy from single footprint

Four-year-old Augustus Lamont was last seen playing at family’s remote Outback farm on Saturday

www.telegraph.co.uk

If this is pay-walled I can summarise.

 

[kurtneverdied]

I can't see how he could of got lost when it was soon dark and the only light around are from his homestead as would of been not far enough away yet. There seems to be only one other house to the south-west and a shed but that's further away. The footprint was described as being found 500m to the north of homestead which is very close to the Old Park Road. It's a very long road, 30-40km.

 

[nao]

Moo..little children are curious, and quite good at getting lost. There are a few pages of lost little ones on WS at the moment. And they are little. Can you imagine losing a puppy out there? There are a lot of buildings out there, lots of places to explore and hide..I lived in Australia as a child lots of big vicious ants, scorpions I loved it out there and definitely spent most of my time exploring....moo

 

[Someone8746]

32.84096° S, 139.60374° E in Google Maps matches the photos on the previous page (roof, water tanks, outbuildings, etc)

Google Maps currently calls this Oak Vale Station but I think the name is wrong and it is really Oak Park Station

I’m sure this was discussed earlier, they are not the same property. August went missed approximately 40kms south of Yunta.

Oakvale Station is 167kms away (approximately)

 

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I’m sure this was discussed earlier, they are not the same property. August went missed approximately 40kms south of Yunta.

Oakvale Station is 167kms away (approximately)

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The size of Yunta is approximately 1221.4 square kilometres, it depends where the distance was measured from. The border of Yunta or the actual town centre. In my experience, having visited my daughter in the outback on occasion, distance perception was pretty challenging, but that's not saying the quoted distance is wrong.