Cameron Corner

Cameron Corner (position 29141Koordinaten: 29 ° 0 ' 0 " S, 141 ° 0' 0" E ) is a point in the Australian outback, to the meet the limits of the states of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, a triangle in terms of on the states of Australia. This point is about 1400 km west- southwest of Brisbane and was named after the surveyor, John Brewer Cameron of the New South Wales Lands Department, who spent 1880-1882 with the demarcation of the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Cameron, at this point in September 1880, a post that marked the end of the boundary line on the border of South Australia. Then he turned from there to the east every mile (1.6 km) a further posts along the border between New South Wales and Queensland on.

This area, which includes the Strzelecki Desert is located in the sedimentary basins of Lake Eyre, was first explored by Captain Charles Sturt, of looking to the assumed Australian Mediterranean penetrated in the center of Australia there 1844.

According to the Courier Mail newspaper in Brisbane is the only inhabitants of this area, Bill Mitchell, who operates the Cameron Corner Store and a golf course nearby. Apparently, it involves " a business in Queensland with a postal code in New South Wales and a phone number from South Australia ". The famous dingo fence runs along the border with New South Wales through the Cameron Corner.

At the Cameron Corner, there are - as well as at the Poeppel Corner and the Surveyor General's Corner - three times of the year because there collide three time zones.