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	Birdsville, Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Birdsville is situated on the edge of the Simpson Desert, and the climate is very arid.
		Birdsville is located in the Diamantina Shire, which has a population of 326 persons (Census 2001).
		The Birdsville Track extends 514 kilometres from Marree in South Australia through the Strzelecki Desert before ending at Birdsville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birdsville,_Queensland (187 words)

	Birdsville Track: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Birdsville Track
		The 514 km track runs from Marree[?], a small town in to north of South Australia, up across the Strzelecki Desert[?] and ends in Birdsville[?] in Southern Queensland.
		In former years the track was of a very poor quality and suitable only for four-wheel drive vehicles, but it has been upgraded to a fullscale dirt road and it is now a popular tourist route.
		The area is extremely barren, dry and isolated, and anyone wishing to travel the track must carry fresh water, supplies, fuel, and spare parts for their vehicle with them in case of emergencies.
	www.encyclopedian.com /bi/Birdsville-Track.html (150 words)

	Walkabout - Birdsville
		Birdsville came to importance in the 1880s when the drovers and station owners in western Queensland realised that moving cattle through the Channel country and down the Birdsville Track to the railhead at Marree (which had been opened in 1884) was the most efficient way to transport cattle to the coastal markets.
		Birdsville's raison d'etre virtually disappeared with Federation in 1901 when interstate trade was freed and since then it has been declining in importance.
		A word of warning: about 100 km down the Birdsville Track is a simple memorial to the Page family who in 1963, after their car had broken down on the road, tried to walk out.
	walkabout.fairfax.com.au /fairfax/locations/QLDBirdsville.shtml (729 words)

	Birdsville - Queensland Holidays
		Birdsville, between the sands of the Simpson Desert and the gibber plains of Sturt's Stony Desert is the starting point of the famous Birdsville Track, which stretches to the south with the Simpson Desert to the west.
		Birdsville began life as 'Diamantina Crossing' in 1881 and was given its present name in 1885.
		Birdsville is best known for its famous pub and the annual race meeting when the population grows from 120 to 6,000 in two days.
	www.queenslandholidays.com.au /outback/birdsville.cfm (274 words)

	"Birdsville Track" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A memorial beside the track remembers the efforts of Lutheran missionaries who ran the aboriginal settlemant at Killalpaninna, the ruins of which are approximately 20km.
		The 'flood' road rejoins the track just north of the normal crossing and these sandhills were the most difficult and notorious part of the track in its early days.
		Birdsville is famous for its Birdsville Race Meeting held in September each year and attracting people from all over the country.
	www.wilmap.com.au /birdsvilletrack.html (1726 words)

	Country Wide Motorcycle Tours Australia - OZ Motorcycle Tours - Australian Motorcycle Tours
		The Birdsville Track now bears some resemblance to a road, rather than a dusty trail, and tourists are able to travel into the area.
		But even today the Track is hazardous and illdefined -particularly around Goyder's Lagoon-and grim warnings on road maps and on roadside signs at Marree and Birdsville advise motorists not to travel the Birdsville Track without special precautions.
		Birdsville itself lies at the end of the Track, by the Diamantina River.
	www.ozmotorcycletours.com /Tours/birdsville02.htm (1237 words)

	The Travel Mall - Top 10 4WD Tracks - Birdsville Track
		One of Australia's most famous outback tracks, the Birdsville track certainly passes through what many people consider to be the quintessential Australian "outback".
		Their camels, once superseded by technology at the beginning of the 20th Century were often let loose or escaped into the desert, and herds of wild camels still roam the desert.
		Birdsville's main drawcard now is the annual picnic races held here on the first weekend in September each year.
	www.oztravel.com.au /travel_mall/Top10/BirdsvilleTrack.html (330 words)

	Birdsville Track @ ExplorOz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Birdsville Track is one of the great icons of the Aussie outback and was once an almost impossible trip.
		The Birdsville Track is travelled heavily during the peak outback travel season (April - October) by the growing breed of 4WD tourists, many even towing campertrailers.
		The sights are mostly bores and hills with occasional grave sites and ruins, but the most notable thing about the Birdsville Track is imagining what it would have been like for the original mailman and stockmen who travelled the track before the road was at its present state.
	www.exploroz.com /TrekNotes/Deserts/Birdsville_Track.asp (934 words)

	The Birdsville Track - Outback tracks - Travel - MyNRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Established during the 1880s, the Birdsville Track was the main stock route between Marree in South Australia and Birdsville in Queensland.
		The original ferry, the MV Tom Brennan, lies beside the Birdsville Track as a tribute to the early settlers and transporters of the area.
		Birdsville is famous throughout the nation for its hotel and its bush races, held every September.
	www.mynrma.com.au /outback_tracks_bir.asp (1279 words)

	Blazing saddles - South Australia - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
		The six-week drive was farewelled in Birdsville on April 30 by a swag of politicians and three ministers of religion.
		It was the arrival of the railway in Marree in 1884 and the government's drilling of 10 bores for watering stock between 1890 and 1916 that cemented the Birdsville Track as Australia's greatest droving route.
		The track is bordered by Sturts Stony Desert, the Simpson, the Tirari and the Strzelecki.
	www.theage.com.au /news/South-Australia/Blazing-saddles/2005/06/09/1118123945177.html (2860 words)

	The Outback Loop - outback holiday information
		Birdsville’s average maximum temperature in January is 39° C but in the desert temperatures can exceed 50° C. Winter mornings can be freezing.
		Please note that the track from Birdsville to the park boundary passes through private property Stay on the marked route unless you have gained permission from the landholder to do otherwise.
		The dunes in the north of the park are dominated by spinifex Triodia basedowii.
	www.theoutback.com.au /simpson.htm (1747 words)

	"BIRDSVILLE" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Free trade and a severe drought in 1915 reduced the town to a remote outpost, and the Birdsville Pub and a mission hospital are the main remaining features of its hey-day.
		The Birdsville Pub becomes the focus and the amount of liquor consumed is legendary.
		Regular light plane services operate to and from Birdsville and the Birdsville Track from Marree is one of Australia's remaining challenges.
	www.wilmap.com.au /birdsville.html (418 words)

	Simpson Desert French Line
		The Birdsville Track to Marree is one of Australia's three most-travelled droving routes, with ten cattle stations spread along its 300 mile length.
		From Marree with his reserve jerrycans, the track was a bare single-tank 500km trip all the way to Birdsville, just so long as fuel wasn't spent unneccessarily.
		Birdsville police Sgt Eric Sammon gathered his resources together once the alarm was sounded by Clifton Hills on Tuesday, 24th December over the AIM radio net.
	www.simpsondesert.fl.net.au /perish (1722 words)

	foto8 :: Birdsville by Glenn Hunt :: p2/6
		Once upon a time the only people who came through Birdsville where drovers moving their cattle along the Diamantina River.
		Birdsville's history starts when the first store to service the drovers was opened in 1878 and it was only three years later that the first race meeting was held.
		Until federation in 1901 Birdsville was essentially a stop off point for drovers to pay state fees for the transportation of cattle across the border to South Australia where they would then drove down the Birdsville track to the railhead at Marree where the cattle would be transported to the coastal markets.
	www.foto8.com /issue09/reportage/GlennHunt/birdsville02.html (136 words)

	Walkabout - Marree
		On the northeastern side of town there is a plaque dedicated to the 'memory of the mail contractors of the Birdsville Track.
		Heading directly north from Marree is the famous Birdsville Track which covers a distance of 517 km across such infamous arid regions at Simpsons Desert and Sturts Stony Desert.
		There is an excellent book Marree and the tracks beyond in fl and white by Lois Litchfield which is an articulate and comprehensive history of the whole region.
	www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/SAMarree.shtml (895 words)

	Casey Australia Tours: 28+ Day Birdsville Track, Coober Pedy, Queensland Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the afternoon it is onto the famous Birdsville Track.
		We move on along the Track to the Queensland/South Australian Border and Birdsville, a classic outback town.
		DAY 7 [CP] From Birdsville the tour heads east to Betoota and the little cattle town of Windorah in the Queensland Channel Country, then on to Longreach.
	www.caseytours.com.au /birdsvilletrack.html (993 words)

	Simpson Desert Crossing - Outback tracks - Travel - MyNRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Where the track crosses them, take care to check the firmness of the surface even in dry conditions because the thin crust covers mud that is permanently soft.
		Leaving the springs, the track climbs to a tableland of gibber plains and, after 20km, runs across a swamp which is impassable after rain.
		This section of the track is one of the worst areas for dune mobility and deterioration of the clay surface, so be prepared to experience some bad washouts.
	www.mynrma.com.au /advertisewithus/outback_tracks_sim.asp (1693 words)

	Species Lists for South East Australia
		On the Norwingi Track, 6 and 8 km.
		male. On the Norwingi Track, 6 and 8 km.
		Striated Grasswren, 8. On the Norwingi Track, a group of birds 5 km.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/australia/aus03/aus-list.htm (5405 words)

	Bridsville Track and Haddon Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We camped in Birdsville at the caravan park and there was about 100 campers and about 50 with vans there that night.
		The mail truck used on the Birdsville Track 20 years ago on display at Marree.
		Travelling from Birdsville to Windorah you have to turn off on the Innamincka road and travel down 42km's to the Haddon Corner turnoff.
	users.tpg.com.au /bazza54/bville.html (944 words)

	Off the beaten track - Take five -
		Birdsville Track has become one of our legendary outback tracks.
		This Track follows the path of explorer John McDouall Stuart, who travelled from Adelaide to Darwin in 1862.
		Nowadays, the track is passable for conventional vehicles for most of the year.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Take-five/Off-the-beaten-track/2005/02/09/1107890255299.html (528 words)

	OUTBACK - SOUTH AUSTRALIA
		Three other tracks, which are slightly more interesting, but are also unsealed, dusty tracks, include the Birdsville Track, Oodnadatta Track and the Strzelecki Track.
		The track leads through the Strzelecki Regional Reserve along the Strzelecki Creek, until it reaches Innamincka on the Southern Queensland border.
		The only place to stop along the track is at the Mungeranie Roadhouse which is nearly half way between Maree and Birdsville where you can get fuel, as well as have minor mechanical repairs undertaken.
	www.australianexplorer.com /outback_south_australia.htm (895 words)

	Outback tracks 8 day Adventure Aussie Leisuretime Travel
		Experience the harsh conditions the drovers of huge herds of cattle met, when the "Strezleki" track was pioneered in 1871 by "captain starlight" a notorious cattle "duffer" (thief) who drove a large herd of stolen cattle from Queensland to Adelaide through some of the harshest terrain in the world.
		Travel up the Birdsville Track to Birdsville after spending some time at the waterhole birdwatching,walking or taking a dip in the hot pool.
		Visit the museum in Birdsville the huge sand hill called BIG RED on The edge of the Simpson Desert and the Wadi trees, a rare Acacia which only grows in three places in the world, the Dingo Caves and an Aboriginal tools site.
	www.aussieleisuretime.com /tracks.htm (442 words)

	The trip
		While some of the tracks have the potential to be very difficult and hazardous to pass, we had no problems, and were a little disappointed just how easy the tracks were to drive over.
		The gravel road from the turnoff to Birdsville was very rocky, with lots of washed out creeks from the recent rains.
		The "track" was not the challenge we expected, other than the total remoteness of where you were.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~mark_anderson1/the_trip.htm (2391 words)

	Flinders Ranges and Outback South Australia - Holiday Planner - Birdsville Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was the land of the drovers, the legendary tough men of the Outback who drove stock from Queensland's rich grazing country to the railhead at Marree.
		Today, the track is still a major cattle producing area, but the drovers have been replaced by huge stock transports that get cattle to markets in a day or two.
		The track is normally in good condition, but travellers should check at the Marree and Birdsville police stations.
	www.flindersoutback.com /birdsville.htm (535 words)

	Australian Desert by bike
		From Birdsville we cycled east to Windorah and continued to the Ppacific Ocean via Quilpie, Charleville, Roma, Injune to Gladstone.
		As soon as the rain hits the track it becomes so boggy that no further movement is possible.
		In these soft, and muddy parts of the track, we were extremely happy not to be equipped with a traditional derailleur gearing system, but instead carried the new Rohloff Speedhub 14/500.
	www.mountainbike-expedition-team.de /Australia/aussie.html (778 words)

	BIRDSVILLE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK, TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN BIRDSVILLE, THINGS TO DO IN BIRDSVILLE, FETSIVALS ...
		Birdsville was once a thriving little town, making money on the exportation of cattle from Queensland to South Australia.
		If you are planning on making the journey out to Birdsville you should aim to get there for the lively Birdsville Races, which are held in September.
		Part of the track is divided into the Inside and Outside Track, although you should check with locals as to which one is best to take at the time.
	www.australianexplorer.com /birdsville.htm (287 words)

	The Sunday Mail QLD: Death in the desert [30oct05] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SKELETAL remains found near a vechicle 10km off the Birdsville Track are believed to be those of a woman who vanished during a camping holiday four months ago.
		The woman apparently had been heading from Innaminka to Birdsville via Walker's Crossing, but had driven on to a dirt track that led only to a bore-water tank on a red, flat gibber plain.
		Birdsville police still have not found British tourist David Hammond, whose yellow Ford Laser was found on the edge of the Simpson Desert near Birdsville in February this year.
	www.thesundaymail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,17073076%255E2765,00.html (488 words)

	The Birdsville Track South Australian History
		The track from Marree in South Australia to Birdsville in Queensland, is the best known and loneliest road in Australia.
		In April 1887 the track between Cowarie Station and Goyder's Lagoon was flooded to such an extent that the only way to get the mail to Birdsville was by boat.
		The best known mail man along the track was Esmond Gerald (Tom) Kruse, MBE, of 'Back of Beyond Fame' who delivered the mail for nearly twenty years, come drought, 'hell or high water'.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /birdsvil.htm (583 words)

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