Russian Jack
Australian gold prospector · Australia · On the map · Historical Figures · Lived 1864 to 1904 · aged 40
Ivan Fredericks, known as Russian Jack, was a sailor from Arkhangelsk who became a gold prospector in Western Australia. He arrived in the Kimberley during the gold rush of 1886 and became known across the colony's goldfields for wheeling a sick prospector to Halls Creek in his wheelbarrow.
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The story was retold in many versions and became part of the folklore of the Western Australian goldfields. A statue of Fredericks was unveiled in Halls Creek in 1979, and in 2000 the Russian community of Perth placed a memorial on his previously unmarked grave.
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