HE is a derring-do figure honoured and celebrated Down Under as the first white man to walk across Australia.
HE is a derring-do figure honoured and celebrated Down Under as the first white man to walk across Australia.
TRIBUTE: John McDouall Stuart is honoured by a statue in Adelaide, left, but his birthplace in Dysart, Fife, has been converted into a holiday home. Main picture: Getty Images
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But Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart – who also mapped the centre of the continent – remains virtually forgotten in the land of his birth.
Now the hunt is on for descendants of the adventurer to come forward to help mark his birthplace in Fife.
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