In 1863, boss drover George Gregory drove 8,000 sheep from near Rockhampton to the Northern Territory border, some 2,100 km, taking seven months.
To the east, it is bounded by the Northern Territory border, whilst its southern boundaries are those of local government areas.
The highway then turns east along Victoria Highway to Kununurra and the Northern Territory border.
The Savannah Way is the largely unsignposted route for Highway 1 between the Northern Territory border and Normanton.
Despite this, until further droughts in the 1880s, farmers talked of cultivating cereal crops up to the Northern Territory border.
This fort is on the edge of Indian Territory border.
They used wireless radio time signals, and other methods to fix a position for the Northern Territory border with Western Australia.
From the Gulf he drove close to the Northern Territory border and he arrived back in Melbourne in January 1913.
Mintabie is approximately 200 kilometres south of the Northern Territory border.
It is situated in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf close to the Northern Territory border.