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Australia : New South Wales

4.3 km (2.7 miles) NW of Kookabookra, NSW, Australia
Approx. altitude: 1030 m (3379 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 30°N 28°W

Accuracy: 41 m (134 ft)
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#2: View North #3: View East #4: View West #5: Latitude/longitude reading from my smartphone #6: A view of the scenic rock-filled hill located just southwest of the point

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  30°S 152°E (visit #3)  

#1: The confluence point is located near the boundary between a farm field and feral land surrounding a scenic hill.  (This is also a view to the South.)

(visited by Ross Finlayson)

08-Apr-2019 -- I’m spending a few days driving from the Gold Coast to Sydney - a drive that I’ve done several times before. This time, I’m hoping to fill in some of the remaining Degree Confluence Points in this part of eastern Australia that I have yet to visit. This point - last visited by Stephan Theriault more than 12 years ago - lies in farmland south-east of the town of Glen Innes. To reach it, I drove 40 km along Pinkett Road, which starts out as paved, but eventually turns into dirt (along the way changing its name to Paddy's Gully Road). I had to drive carefully to avoid cattle that were wandering alongside this narrow road, and at one point, I had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting a kangaroo that was standing in the middle of the road!

I parked at [-30.00749,152.00495], about 950m SSE of the point, and hiked across farmland, bypassing a scenic rounded hill strewn with gum trees growing among sections of exposed granite. The Degree Confluence Point lies near a fence that separates a farm field from feral land (including the scenic hill). Unfortunately the batteries on my GPS receiver died just before I reached the point, so I wasn’t able to get ‘all zeros’. Instead, I used my smartphone’s compass (GPS) app, which has a resolution of 1 second. This gave me a precision of about 31 meters of latitude, and about 27 metres of longitude, so from this (using Pythagoras’s theorem) I conservatively estimated the accuracy as 41 metres.


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#1: The confluence point is located near the boundary between a farm field and feral land surrounding a scenic hill. (This is also a view to the South.)
#2: View North
#3: View East
#4: View West
#5: Latitude/longitude reading from my smartphone
#6: A view of the scenic rock-filled hill located just southwest of the point
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