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This old telegraph (and later, telephone) repeater station is located in Hamelin Pool, near Shark Bay in Western Australia. It is about as far from "everywhere else" as one can be in that vast thinly populated continent nation. The station dated back to around 1884 and served as a telegraph repeater station. Note the glass and porcelain insulators and antique telegraph equipment. I had recently read about this location in a rather interesting and humourous travelogue about traveling around the remote parts of Australia in 2000, "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. I got curious about this station, and the somewhat (in)famous large framed photograph of the somewhat (in) famous lineman named Adgee Cross (more details about him in the third photo). |