Cameron Corner
Cameron Corner ( location ) is a point in the Australian outback where the borders of Queensland , South Australia and New South Wales meet, a triangle in relation to the states of Australia .
The point is about 1400 kilometers west-southwest of Brisbane and was named after the surveyor John Brewer Cameron of the "New South Wales Lands Department", who spent 1880 to 1882 marking the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Cameron set up a post at this point in September 1880, marking the end of this boundary line on the border of South Australia. Then he set up another post every mile (1.6 km) east along the New South Wales-Queensland border.
This area, which also includes the Strzelecki Desert in the sedimentary basin of Lake Eyre , was first explored by Captain Charles Sturt , who went there in 1844 in search of the presumed Australian Mediterranean Sea in central Australia.
According to the Brisbane Courier Mail , the only resident in the area is Bill Mitchell , who runs the Cameron Corner store and a golf course nearby. Apparently this is "a business in Queensland with a zip code from New South Wales and a telephone number from South Australia". The famous dingo fence runs along the New South Wales border through Cameron Corner.
At Cameron Corner - just like at Poeppel Corner and Surveyor Generals Corner - there is the turn of the year three times in a row because three time zones collide there.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ABC: Remote golf course sees first ever grass . In: ABC online , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 2, 2007. Archived from the original on February 4, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Cameron Corner . Qweekend. The Courier Mail. 3rd / 4th December 2005
