Review: Birdsville & Strzelecki Tracks

Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012 at 17:22

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Birdsville & Strzelecki Tracks

This magnificent area of outback Australia stretches from Betoota in the north, through Birdsville and south to Marree. The map also covers routes from Birdsville to Innamincka and Cameron Corner to

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I was surprised at how much detail can be put into a map like this , the reverse side has alot of background info . A newbie can
use this to plan an itinerary .
GPS info is a great idea , as an old school navigator I would liked to see a relationship between map , true and magnetic North .
Still , I could get around with just this map and a compass .
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Reply By: The Explorer - Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012 at 18:06

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012 at 18:06

Hi

Keep in mind the map is 1: 1,000,000 scale so not that suited to "old school navigation" eg. the major tracks are shown as lines nearly 200 metres wide. Any bearings calculated from the map would be plus or minus a few degrees - probably similar to any variations between grid/true (same on this map) and magnetic north.

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I sent one final shout after him to stick to the track, to which he replied “All right,” That was the last ever seen of Gibson - E Giles 23 April 1874

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