What a great view of Adelaide, taken from the foothills as you can see. In fact, it is close to the Princes Highway which in the late 1940s looked more like this:
Below is another image, this is from the Toll House on the main road, in the background you can see the Smelter Chminey and the tailings piled high.
Given that it was,in the 1940s at least, considered to be a little bit off the beaten track, it would make a great place to hide for someone wanting to stay out of site. Look at it from the perspective of someone looking for a relatively safe spot to keep their head down. If you were, say, in the old smelter buildings you would be able to see someone coming from quite a distance.
But what could this have to do with the Somerton Man case?
And the answer lies in yet another image:
This is an image produced by the good people at Adelaide University, it is a spectrograph of the analysis of the hair said to have been taken from the Somerton Man's plaster bust by Professor Abbott and his team. The analysis showed that for some time, right up until two weeks before his death, the Somerton Man was exposed to abnormally high levels of lead.
I know this is a long shot, it's a possibility but not at this stage, a probability. And the issue of the source of the mair from the bust remains an unresolved matter. Having said that, if the hair on which the above analysis was carried ou was from the Somerton Man, then we have a possibility.
It would mean that SM was in the area for some time before his demise and more; it would mean that he either removed himself or was removed from the source of the lead a full two weeks before his body was discovered on Somerton Beach. If that was the case, where would he have been?
This may or may not be a piece of the puzzle so it can be filed away until we have a known result. I find it interesting but no more than that just yet.
It would be worthwhile to consider who lived in or around Glen Osmond in November 1948. Researchers may be a tad surprised with the answers to that particular question.
Even if we did find someone, a person of interest, proving that he or she had any involvement in the man's demise would be impossible. But seemingly impossible things do happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheal_Watkins_mine
THEY DIED FOR GERMANY
REMEMBERING 20th JULY 1944
On 20 July 2024, German potentates and families will gather in the court of the Bendlerblock, which – today as during the Second World War – houses Germany’s Ministry of Defence. In this very court, Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften, Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, Friedrich Olbricht and Ludwig Beck were executed by firing squad on 20 July 1944 for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler.