Cameron Corner is an outback

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in the

Shire of Bulloo The Shire of Bulloo ( ) is a Local government in Australia, local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. On 17 April 2020 the Queensland Government reorganised the nine localities in the Shire, resulting in six localities by makin ...

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. It is on the Queensland border with

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to the south and

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to the west. In the , Cameron Corner had a population of 19 people.

Geography

Cameron Corner is located about west-southwest of

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, Queensland and is the point in the

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of eastern

where the boundary lines of the states of

, and

meet (the area immediately to the north and east of the intersection of the state boundaries). The noted

Dingo Fence The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence in Australia to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they have largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. ...

passes through Cameron Corner along the New South Wales border. Cameron Corner has the following mountains (from north to south): * Mount Intrepid () * Mount Morris () * Mount Bygrave ()

History

This general area, which includes

Sturt Stony Desert Sturt Stony Desert (previously Sturt's Stony Desert) is an area in the north-east of South Australia, far south western border area of Queensland and the far west of New South Wales. It was named by Charles Sturt in 1844, while he was trying ...

in the

Lake Eyre Basin The Lake Eyre basin ( ) is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia. It is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and amongst the largest in the world, covering about , including much of inland Queensland, large port ...

, was first explored by Captain

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, who in 1844 went in search of a supposed

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in the centre of Australia. The corner and locality are named for the surveyor,

John Brewer Cameron John Brewer Cameron (1843–1897) was a Geodetic survey, geodetic surveyor in Australia. He is best known for his Queensland borders#Surveying the Queensland New South Wales border, survey of the border between Queensland and New South Wales. He ...

, from the New South Wales Lands Department, who spent two years during 1880–1882 marking the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Cameron erected a post there in September 1880 to mark its intersection with the border of South Australia. He placed a wooden marker every eastwards along the interstate boundary. On 28 January 1919, the

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placed restrictions on the border crossing at Wompah Gate () to prevent the spread of the

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into Queensland, which were enforced by the

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. A medical screening process was used to determine if Queensland residents could safely return to the state. On 17 April 2020, the

reorganised the nine localities in the Shire of Bulloo, resulting in six localities. It included Cameron Corner gaining a small portion of land from the west of the locality of Bulloo Downs. It increased the area of the locality from to .

Demographics

In the , Cameron Corner had "no people or a very low population". In the , Cameron Corner had a population of 19 people.

Heritage listings

Cameron Corner Survey Marker Cameron Corner Survey Marker is a heritage-listed survey marker in the locality of Cameron Corner, Queensland, Cameron Corner, Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. The survey marker is at the border corner of South-West Queensland with New ...

() marks the corner and was listed on the

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in 2012.

Dingo Fence

The section of the

in Queensland is also known as the Great Barrier Fence or Wild Dog Barrier Fence 11. It is administered by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. The Wild Dog Barrier Fence staff consists of 23 employees, including two-person teams that patrol a section of the fence once every week. There are depots at

Quilpie Quilpie ( ) is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Quilpie, Shire of Quilpie, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Quilpie had a population of 530 people. The town is the administrative cent ...

and

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. The Queensland Border Fence stretches for westwards along the border with

, into the

Strzelecki Desert The Strzelecki Desert is located in the Far North Region of South Australia, South West Queensland and western New South Wales. It is positioned in the northeast of the Lake Eyre Basin, and north of the Flinders Ranges. Two other deserts occup ...

. The fence passes the point where the three states of Queensland, New South Wales and

meet ( Cameron Corner). At this point, it connects with the South Australian Border Fence, which runs for southwards along the border with New South Wales. It then joins a section known as the Dog Fence in South Australia, which is long.

Homesteads

There are a number of homesteads in the locality, including (from north to south): * Orientos () * Tennappera () * Epsilon () * Santos () * Naryilco () * Omicron ()

Events

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is celebrated three times each year in Cameron Corner (also in

Poeppel Corner Poeppel Corner (known as Poeppel's Corner in Queensland) at latitude 26° S and longitude 138° E is a corner of state boundaries in Australia, where the state of Queensland meets South Australia and the Northern Territory The Northern T ...

and

Surveyor Generals Corner Surveyor Generals Corner (or Surveyor-Generals Corner) is the point where the Australian state boundaries of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory meet. These boundaries meet at the easternmost point of the approximate ...

), because the three states that meet at the corner are in three

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Facilities

The Cameron Corner Store was established in 1990 by a

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veteran, Sandy Nall, and his wife Cathrine. As of 2014, the store was operated by the sole permanent residents of Cameron Corner, Fenn and Cheryl Miller. The store reportedly has a Queensland liquor licence, a New South Wales postal code and a South Australian telephone number. The locality also features a desert golf course.

Education

There are no schools in Cameron Corner nor nearby. The alternatives are

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and boarding school.

References

External links

{{Auscorner Borders of South Australia Borders of New South Wales Borders of Queensland South West Queensland Survey marks in Queensland Shire of Bulloo Localities in Queensland