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Talk about the ‘Channel Country’ to your mates, and many people will probably tell you they know where it is. After all, the words ‘Channel Country’ are bandied around as if its geographic borders can be clearly found in a road atlas. But if you were asked to explain exactly where to find it, how do you reckon you’d go? Would you try “the catchment area and rivers that flow into Lake Eyre”? How about “east of the Simpson Desert, west of Charleville, south of Cloncurry and north of Packsaddle”?

In reality, the Channel Country comprises the Barcoo Shire, Boulia Shire and Diamantina