Eulo Bore

What’s a bore? Underneath the dry heart of Australia you’ll find the Great Artesian Basin. Yep, there’s another ‘Great’ gee we’ve got a lot of ‘Great’ things dotted about this country. The Great Artesian Basin is the largest and deepest in the world and covers an area of 1.7 million Km₂ which equates to 22% of the continent* Outback towns and cattle stations rely on these bores for their water supply and for watering their livestock.

The Eulo bore in South Western Queensland was sunk in 1966 to a depth of 223 metres. The water which is the town’s water supply is a warm 38˚C when it reaches the surface.

*Wikipedia

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Image Source: Wikipedia, By Tentotwo – Basin extent: Geoscience Australia Revised Great Artesian Basin Jurassic-Cretaceous boundaryCoastline, rivers, state borders: Natural Earth dataset, 1:50MShaded relief: Kenneth Townsend, Shaded Relief Archive, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26822532

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