Furthest point from the sea

Thanks Bob Y.
Certainly know what to look for now.
Just caught my interest at this stage.
Might be able to include it in a Cameron's Corner trip.

Been there a few times myself also.

Ian.

It would be remiss of me if I didn't mention that Eromanga is the town furthest from the sea.
Not much chance of opal noodling out there anymore, but the dinosaur fossil excavation on Plevna Downs is pretty impressive.
mike

Yes that would be the Lambert Centre - been there. See pics in Places and info.

Thanks DickyBeach I stand corrected.
You are right

Here is a shot from our trip in 2011..........

Boobook and DickyBeach are right.

Excellent.
It sounds like a good trip.
Perhaps we should include Eromanga and Cruises Tank for good measure and for a laugh.

Bruce, apart from the fact that Eromanga seemed to incorrectly anoint it's self as the furthest place from the sea, despite what you may have learned in scouts, you can't use a compass to measure distance on maps that cover a large area like Australia due to projection errors. All maps have projection errors. Many Australian maps use Mercator or Lambert projections and do not represent EW and NS correctly. It does work fine on maps for walking etc as the errors are minimal.

In other words, the E-W distances at the top of Australia are different to those at the bottom of the maps. NS will be different again.

This is a great, interesting website to show the distortions that we normally ignore. Move Australia around. Also check out Greenland, normally it looks about as big as Africa, or bigger than Australia but it isn't even as big as WA. 3 of them could fit in Australia.

The subject of projections is very interesting.

Thanks Boobook, Yes, I was aware of that and didn't have anyway to easily overcome it.
The distances I quoted are from Google maps "measure distance" tool which gives a straight line measure. One might hope the Google maps make allowances for projection.
Papunya is the nearest settlement to the "furthest from sea" co-ordinates as per the info that you and DickyBeach supplied. i.e. 23.07S & 132.08E or near vicinity.

Yes. This is only 720klm from the G.A.Bight though.
Therefore not furthest from the sea.

What!! -and destroy their tourism?
Perhaps we can wake a dinosaur or bring their sea back.
The Quilpie coucil proudly announce the "fact", as well as the service station in town.
I bet at least one of the pubs make a claim as well.
The Courier Mail blew up the idea in 1985, maybe nobody gets it out there.

Another on to visit!
Just checked where it might be.
4klm south of the Len Beadell Marker on the Great Central Rd.

Quote "Eromanga does not have the claim to fame for the town furthest from the sea since it is only about 795klms."

The actual claim is that it is the town furthest from the sea by road. Who ever approved that sign did not include the full story.

"By road" doesn't stand up either.
Alice Springs is further.
Then one gets into defining roads. !!!

Do you know on what basis they make that claim?
It is about half way from Brisbane to Perth via Hay and Mildura (within 50klms)
and within 77klms of halfway via BrokenHill.
I can't imagine any other basis for a claim.