The disappearance of four-year-old August ‘Gus’ Lamont has gripped the nation and devastated a remote South Australian community, with nearly six weeks of searching turning up almost no trace of the little blond boy.

Gus was last seen around 5pm on September 27 , playing outside the Oak Park homestead while his grandmother cared for his younger brother Ronnie inside.

His mother and other grandparent were out tending sheep on the 6,000-hectare property, located 43km south of Yunta in South Australia’s Mid North.

The terrain is brutal — arid, rocky, and vast.

The station is home to around 3,000 sheep and scattered wildlife including feral goats, kangaroos and wallabies.

Search crews have battled scorching heat, rugged hills and sparse vegetation in their efforts to find the missing

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