Burke & Wills 57: Phosphate Hill Mine - Burke and Wills Expedition (sitios de interés)
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January 14 found the explorers at Camp 94, just east of what is today Phosphate Hill Mine. King wrote in his journal of "picturesque and pastoral country. Extensive amphitheatres were richly carpeted with succulent grasses, while the hills which enclosed them were lightly timbered with the mallee scrub, as likewise with the native orange tree."But the group was now entering rugged hill country heading toward the mountains south of Cloncurry. On January 15, King wrote that they were "still threading our way among the ranges, creeping round their spurs wherever practicable". The next day Wills climbed a mountain looking for gap "but the attempt was ineffectual".
Australia gets all of its commercial phosphate from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean and this one domestic mine.