Thursday, April 02, 2009

 

This is Why They Call it the Nullarbor

The most interesting part of our trip on the Indian-Pacific was the section where we went across the Nullarbor Plain. "Nullarbor" means "no trees" in Latin, and that's exactly what it looks like. Its a huge ancient sea bottom, absolutely flat and almost no trees to be seen. Most of the trees you do see are where people planted them back in the last century when there were a lot of small railway towns along the trans-Australia line. The Nullarbor is huge, 270,000 square kilometers in area. It runs almost 2000 km from Ceduna in South Australia to Norseman in Western Australia, and from the Great Australian Bight for hundreds of kilometers inland to the deserts in the centre of Australia. I never saw anything like it before and was at the window for the whole day.

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