Cameron Corner, Queensland
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Cameron Corner Bulloo Shire, Queensland |
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Cameron Corner, 2001
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 Cameron Corner
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| Coordinates | 28°30′55″S 141°31′45″E / 28.51528°S 141.52917°ECoordinates: 28°30′55″S 141°31′45″E / 28.51528°S 141.52917°E | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2880 | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Bulloo Shire | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Warrego | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Maranoa | ||||||||||||
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Cameron Corner is a locality in the Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. It is located about 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) west-southwest of Brisbane, Queensland and is the point in the outback of eastern Australia where the boundary lines of the states of Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales meet (the area immediately to the north and east of the intersection of the state boundaries).The noted Dingo Fence passes through Cameron Corner along the New South Wales border.
The corner and locality are named for the surveyor, John Brewer Cameron, from the New South Wales Lands Department, who spent two years during 1880–1882 marking the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Cameron erected a post there in September 1880 to mark its intersection with the border of South Australia. He placed a wooden marker every mile (1.6 km) eastwards along the interstate boundary.
This general area, which includes Sturt Stony Desert in the Lake Eyre Basin, was first explored by Captain Charles Sturt, who in 1844 went in search of a supposed inland sea in the center of Australia.
The Cameron Corner Store was established in 1990 by a Vietnam War veteran, Sandy Nall, and his wife Cathrine. As of 2014, the store is operated by the sole permanent residents of Cameron Corner, Fenn and Cheryl Miller. The store reportedly has a Queensland liquor licence, a New South Wales postal code and a South Australian telephone number. The locality also features a desert golf course.
New Year's Eve is celebrated three times each year in Cameron Corner (also in Poeppel Corner and Surveyor Generals Corner), because the three states that meet at the corner are in three time zones.
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