Russian Jack

Ivan Fredericks (1864–1904), known as Russian Jack (Русский Джек), was a goldminer of the Western Australian gold rush in the 1880s.

[1] In 1885, while working in the Halls Creek goldmines, he pushed his sick friend in a wheelbarrow 300 km through the Great Sandy Desert to Wyndham, the nearest town with a medical centre.

[4][5][6] While he may not be very well known in Russia,[7] Russian Jack is a famous figure in Western Australia.

[8] The Peter J. Bridge work Russian Jack[9] claims the actual distance travelled to the nearest medical centre was not 300 km but actually closer to 50 km.

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