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Australia’s great train journeys
Posted by rod - 06.06.2009
The Australian camels, roving in the only feral herds of their kind in the world and estimated to number 1,000,000[citation needed], are descendants of camels imported into Australia, beginning in the mid-1800s, to help lay the foundations of the nation. Shipments came largely from the Indian subcontinent, but animals were also landed from Muscat, Yemen, Iraq and the Canary Islands. Now these Camels are are replased with the great Australian train journeys. I guess thats where “The Ghan got it’s logo from. Found via travelblog.org backpackertours.com.au zimbio.com travel.ninemsn.com.au and aussiebackpacker.com.au
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“The Ghan” is from the Afgans who tended the camels.
My great grandfather was the first postmaster at Hergot Springs later called Marree in central Australia. They used the camels to check the telegraph lines, which were often cut by people stranded in the desert, who knew that then help would come.
The Afgans had a separate settlement close by.