The likelihood of finding a little boy lost in the outback is fading as family and searchers cling to hopes he has found shelter and is waiting to be rescued.

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Defence personnel have joined the search for the four-year-old who has not been seen for almost a week.

August, known as Gus, went missing from his family's sheep station in the remote South Australian mid-north on Saturday afternoon.

The only trace found of the preschooler is a tiny footprint in the dirt about 500 metres from the family homestead, which brought hope, but police now admit it "could have been there a week".

"A four-year-old lad, they just don't disappear into thin air

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