He was buried at the cave-spring camp, and the highest hill in the neighbourhood was christened Mount Farmer.

His death and burial reminds one of Sturt's friend Poole, who rests in the east of the continent under the shadow of Mount Poole.

Thus two lonely graves in the Australian wilderness are guarded by mountains whose names perpetuate the memory of their occupants.

And who could desire a nobler monument than the everlasting hills?
Austin now came to the upper tributaries of the Murchison only to find them waterless.

Even the deep cut channel of the Murchison itself was dry.