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HEMA SIMPSON DESERT - K1 LINE

This track runs along the Hay River Track to reach Poeppel Corner, which is the convergence of the Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory borders.

The point is named after Augustus Poeppel, who conducted a survey in the 1880s to exactly mark out the borders of the three central states with a coolibah post he had dragged there by camel. The post has since moved to more accurately reflect the intersection and was even replaced in 1989, while an official marker has been laid to definitively mark today's state borders nearby.

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