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For people interested in the story of Explorer David Carnegie a facsimile edition of "In the Hands of Providence" has just been released....

Just outside of Broken Hill in NSW are some locations that were used in the film Mad Max 2. A few kilometres north than the town of Silverton,...

Docker River was my departure point. I had arrived yesterday afternoon and after a brief tour of the town I camped in the local campground just west right before sunset....

The turnoff from the Eyre Highway was about 85 kilometres out of Balladonia Roadhouse, on the right as you head east and I arrived there just before 11am....

Here are some pictures taken whilst traveling from Gnarlbine Rock to Broomehill along existing tracks. This is approximately the route taken by John Holland & Co....

We had camped near a small creek system near the top end of the Tanami Track, about fifteen kilometres south of the Great Northern Highway....

Looking at maps of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia there is a remote nature reserve near the centre of it. This is most apparent in high scale maps,...

From the Great Central Road and Warburton we headed north along the Gunbarrel Highway, or what is now called the Warburton North Road. We being myself and my father John....

The "Fair Maid of Perth", the horse that accompanied explorer Alfred Gibson to his death is not named after Western Australia's capital Perth, as is sometimes thought,...

This trip/journey report covers some of the desolate interior of Western Australia and the associated routes to and from the capital city of Western Australia, Perth....

The mining town of Newman was my departure point for my planned trip into the Gibson Desert. I had arrived there in the morning and spent a few hours looking around some of ...