TRANS-AUSTRALIAN ROUTE.—Between Perth and Adelaide the railway traveller passes over one of the strangest tracts of couhtry. in the world, the Nullarhor Plain. Some of its extraordinary features, not all of them obvious, are described on this page. Above: (1) The railway line, perfectly straight, looks like this for more than 300 miles. (2) Water, so scarce above ground, is plentiful and pure in caves such as this. (3) Artificial reservoir, filled from artesian source, beside the railway. (4) Mrs. Daisy Bales, widely known as the aborigines' friend, greeting the Duke of Gloucester at Ooldea, on the trans-Australian line. (5) A typical "blowhole" opening in the limestone crust.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 253, 24 October 1936, Page 1 (Supplement)

TRANS-AUSTRALIAN ROUTE.—Between Perth and Adelaide the railway traveller passes over one of the strangest tracts of couhtry. in the world, the Nullarhor Plain. Some of its extraordinary features, not all of them obvious, are described on this page. Above: (1) The railway line, perfectly straight, looks like this for more than 300 miles. (2) Water, so scarce above ground, is plentiful and pure in caves such as this. (3) Artificial reservoir, filled from artesian source, beside the railway. (4) Mrs. Daisy Bales, widely known as the aborigines' friend, greeting the Duke of Gloucester at Ooldea, on the trans-Australian line. (5) A typical "blowhole" opening in the limestone crust.