Provide Map 1.6. Using Map 1.4 and Map 1.6, discuss the importance of the Overland Telegraph line, and how its construction in 1870–1872 was helped by the existence of springs. Locate those sections of the line which were obviously dependent on artesian springs and ask students to suggest how water might have been obtained in the other sections. Map 1.6 Australia showing the overland telegraph network
Provide Map 1.6. Using Map 1.4 and Map 1.6, discuss the importance of the Overland Telegraph line, and how its construction in 1870–1872 was helped by the existence of springs. Locate those sections of the line which were obviously dependent on artesian springs and ask students to suggest how water might have been obtained in the other sections. Map 1.6 Australia showing the overland telegraph network
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