Surveyor Generals Corner

The Surveyor General's Corner -26129.00027777778 is a point in the Australian outback, where the borders of the states of Western Australia and South Australia, and the Northern Territory meet. He represents a triangle in terms of the aforementioned Australian states

1922 an agreement between the then Prime Minister William M. Hughes, the Acting Prime Minister of South Australia, Sir John George Rice and the Prime Minister of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell was closed, set the border along the 129th degree of longitude. The limit should be measured by Deakin and Argyle from. In 1963 the first with the exact measurement and realized that both lines could never meet exactly.

In June 1968 two boundary stones were erected at the place where the two lines should meet; they are separated by about 127 m. At the inauguration ceremony, the top surveyor of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory participated. Following a proposal of the Director of National Mapping the points in the documents of the two states and the federal territory was referred to as Surveyor General's Corner.

Since 7 March 2003, the access to this area is by a decision of the municipality Irrunytju ( Wingellina ), whose original territory the Surveyor Generals Corner is limited. Access is possible only for guided tours within and visitors need in addition to the usual Great Central Road Transit Permit a special permit. The nearest settlement is Kalka in South Australia, which lies a few miles south on the Gunbarrel Highway.

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