: for smugglers, but the border was disputed until well after federation.
: There is a story of a surveying error which to this day means that the
: Vic/SA border is about 3-4km further west than the NSW/SA border - have a
: look at a map. The Vics won the argument in the privy council I believe and
: got the strip of land, but had it been the other way, Servie would have
: been in SA. A classic case of he who shouts loudest.
Yes, the story is true; the border was *supposed* to be along the 141 deg.
meridian, but in actual fact, it was surveyed to the west of this line.
: This border anomaly creates another wonderful trivia question with which
: you could win mega-bucks in a bar-bet.
: Through what states does the Murray ruver run?
There is another interesting story with regards to the NSW/VIC border.
When a body was found on the southern bank of the Murray River, there
was an arguement between Vic and NSW as to who would conduct the murder
investigation.
: Only a tenuous link to railways I'll admit, but interesting.
John
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