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My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.

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Ah .. very australian. I live in middle europe and there are many places just "10h" drive away I have never visited and probably never will ..

But aside that, I doubt it will look spectacular close up.

A 10h drive in Central Europe can get you far :). Australia is a vast emptiness as soon as you leave the coast. Also I’m hoping I can get the geoglyph in frame with a drone though I haven’t done the math to see whether that’s possible within the confines of the law in terms of altitude (120m max altitude in Oz).

Yes, I know ... been to your emptiness before, thats why I said, "very australian". Distances are relative, I know. Here I think long before doing a 2 h drive ..

Not legal, but I’d imagine you could push that ceiling safely and without any consequences out there. Problem is taking photos from illegally high makes the wrong kind of evidence.

There are apps that photograph an area and stitch the photos for you.

In describing the scale of distances (and time) in the United States to a brit:

> In England, 100 miles is a long distance. In the US, 100 years is a long time.

This likely applies to Australia as well. Note that this is a vast oversimplification as there is certainly culture in both Australia and the US that is much older than 100 years, but it gives the sense that the country is young - the difference between the old world and the new world.

I don’t think it’s even really visible from the ground - maybe a vaguely scuffed and cleared strip of dirt.

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