Maps and Feature Names

Thanks Alan

I reckon anything in 1966 would have been "hard to find". We have it so easy these days (my other fetish - GPS units).

Cheers
Greg

So annoying though...
It was only hard to find once, now we know where it is it is no longer hard to find :-)

Assuming they plotted it in the right spot :) (though Google Earth would solve that problem in this case)

Recall doing a 5km walk off the CSR into the Great Sandy looking for a "soak" that wasn't where it should have been once. I suppose no prior preparation was really to blame. All good fun though.

Cheers
Greg

Hi! Explorer,

I too take much pleasure in looking at maps and have for many years used
"The Readers Digest Topographical Atlas of Australia"

This Atlas is a coffee coloured book 280 mm. wide and 400 mm. Tall.
Last printed 1997. Quite rare and often found in Op. Shops. $5-10.

In conjunction with Google Earth any place in Australia can be located. New towns etc. will not appear but every topographical
factor will be correct.

I have studied this Atlas for probably 30 years and found only one
mistake, two rivers side by side with names transposed.

Lats and Longs are shown on every page,
2 degrees North and South, 3 degrees East and West.

Accurate to less than one minute.

If you spot one have a look. I never miss buying one if it appears.

Gifts for friends.

Have fun Haji-Baba

From my somewhat limited experience, it's always been; "Hard to find....Damn!"

;-)

Or mick its

Dam, hard to find.

I suspect Mick means "hard to get" not so much "hard to find", but that would be a change of subject/OT, so best we keep exploring...:)

Cheers
Greg

Yeah ..If its plotted on a Govt map it will be in the "gazetteer" (assume Google have just acquired Fed Govt gazeteer data) ..same base data as used in EoTopo etc ..no mystery there.

Alan (Equinox) provided a possible origin of the name though not sure of the source of his info, I assume something from WA Landgate?

Cheer
Greg

Yes, Landgate's Geonoma...