The family of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont are “stoic” but traumatised, police say, as they start a new and expanded stage of the recovery operation.

The blond, curly haired Gus – described by a family member as shy but adventurous – went missing from his family’s outback sheep station more than two weeks ago.

At 5pm on Saturday 27 September, Gus’s grandmother saw him playing on a mound of dirt at the homestead, which is near Yunta, about 300km from Adelaide.

When she went to call him in, 30 minutes later, he was gone.

Gus was wearing a blue T-shirt with a yellow Minion on the front, a grey sun hat, light-grey long pants and boots.

The search was scaled back a week ago, but on Tuesday South Australian police expanded the search area, with the help of Australian defence force (ADF)

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