Surveyor Generals corner, Who's seen it?

At a $100 access fee, ehhh NO Thanks
Cheers

When I said no permits issued, I meant no free transit permits. I know it's possible to buy your way in...or at least it was until recently, but I believe that it is, or was, closed entirely for a while.
Does anyone have the latest "goss" on this ?

Footloose,

Friends went there last year and it was $100 per vehicle and $20 per person plus you have to be taken to the corner by someone from the nearby Community.

Viv

We went there in 2002 and 2005. Getting a transit permit for AP lands is basically impossible, you can get access to SG Corner by paying your quids but you then have to return from whence you came as they won't allow transit permits through AP lands beyond it.

Try applying for a transit permit anyway - you probably won't get a reply. Essentially each community has a say over access to their area. It is beautiful country though....quite spectacular and although it is called the Giles- Mulga Park Road it is really the Gunbarrell Highway....Len's first road, there are quite a few of Lens markers along the way.

We had a legit entry permit into the AP lands and we could hear the locals on the UHF asking others who we were all the way down to Mulga Park.....they certainly are aware that "we" are not normally allowed in.

I do not think most people know there are two markers.

Here's a spiel on it from Geoscience Website (also including the reference to the south pole):

A glance at most maps of Australia will tell you something that isn't quite true. The border that runs along the eastern edge of Western Australia is not actually one continuous straight line.
The survey of the W.A. border was first discussed in 1911, but it wasn't until 1922 that an agreement was signed between then Prime Minister W.M. Hughes, and Acting Premier for South Australia, Mr. Bice, and the Premier of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell. The agreement set out the border as being a line determined by the 129th meridian east longitude. However, the agreement required that the boundary be defined by lines running north and south from independently fixed points at Deakin and Argyle. When survey work began on the South Australia - Northern Territory border in 1963, it was quickly realised that the earlier agreement precluded the possibility of these lines meeting exactly.
Precise survey methods confirmed this, and in June 1968, two monuments - approximately 127 metres apart - were erected at the junction of the boundaries. This ceremony was attended by the respective Surveyor Generals, H.Comm from Western Australia, H.A. Bailey from South Australia, and P.J. Wells from the Northern Territory. The monuments common to all three territories was named Surveyor General's Corner at the suggestion of the Director of National Mapping. One interesting piece of trivia is that fewer people have visited this site than have been to the South Pole.