salt flats near Woomera

Dead Battery at Woomera

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June 27th 2007
We’re in Woomera (a semi-ghost town between salt flats that is mostly a military town for testing missiles) for a second night. My battery was dead when we tried to leave this morning. It must have gone flat with all the testing I did trying to get our communication system working. (It still isn’t ). With the closest mechanic back in Port Augusta 200 kms to the south, we were incredibly luck ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Woomera

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more