B&W (V) Tropic of Capricorn Min Min, Queensland, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2367

This is a special Burke & Wills cache listed on Geocaching Australia.

This cache requires you to visit a Burke & Wills historical location and take a photo as described along with your GPS receiver and if possible yourself in the picture. Once you have logged this cache as a find, you are required to load your picture to your log to validate your find.

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Validating Your Log
Take a picture of your GPS receiver showing the same co-ordinates as the cache page (plus or minus 100 meters) and attach it to your online log.

Important Information
The Burke Wills Historical Society notes: "The actual route Burke and Wills followed once they left Camp 78 is unknown and one of the most intensely debated issues. Wills' map and some of his journals containing astronomical observations have been lost. Because the journals have never been transcribed, it means the expedition's track north of the Diamantina, through the gibber rises, confused sand dunes and extensive claypans, is a matter for conjecture."
Travel in Outback Australia can be extremely hazardous. Plan your trip with care and seek and follow local advice on what precautions to take. Be aware of private property restrictions. Do not risk your life to log this geocache.

About This Location
Encountering far less water than they'd hoped for, Burke and his men were relieved to come across "a creek of considerable dimensions" and stayed for the night. "I should have liked this camp to have been in a more prominent and easily recognisable position," Wills noted, "as it happens to be almost exactly on the Tropic of Capricorn."
They'd reached what became known as the Burke River (the Wills River is 14 kilometres upstream), near the present-day town of Boulia, and continued north along the 140th meridien of longitude.

A sign at the entrance to Boulia invites tourists to fill their waterbags at the spots where Burke and Wills once did. The town has been grazing territory almost since they departed, but the tourists supplement the local economy, lured not just by the legend and the rugged landscape but by the Min Min Encounter, a recently built attraction capitalising on the eerie phenomenon called the Min Min Lights, said to haunt travellers hereabouts.

Additonal Information
Source: Paul Dorsey Used with Permission