Robert B. F Mackenzie

Based in Cuncudgerie, Mackenzie is a former friend and confidant of Arthur MacWhirr, as well as the executor of his estate, and knew of MacWhirr’s desert discovery. The pair had planned to survey the site back in 1921 but, with MacWhirr’s death, the scheme never got any further.
Mackenzie provides help and support to arrange supplies and vehicles for the investigators’ trek into the desert by putting them in contact with the local, and only supplier Mortimer Wycroft.
While he would dearly love to go too, his current commitments mean he is tied to his work. He encourages the investigators to take plenty of photographs and to gather samples, which they can bring back for him.