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Ah, but there may be a McDonalds behind you that's much closer!

Haha, no. It's a 500km (310mi.) drive, and there is only a McDonalds at the start and one at the end.

I find this hard to believe (grew up in Swan Hill).

Where are you heading to from Melbourne? I doubt you could stay in Victoria and be more than 250km from a McDonalds.

Ha. I have not actually been back to Oz for 6 years now.. and apparently things have changed a lot. I didn't know there was one in Horsham, or Renmark for that matter.

I was originally referring to the Melbourne->Mildura drive, but obviously I need to update my facts. Sorry 'bout that.

Maybe in the Wimmera?

You're certainly far from Macca's when you head up the Cobb in NSW, though.

Eyeballing Macca's Australian website [1], I'd say that the furthest point would be equidistant from Kalgoorlie, Broome and Alice Springs. That's pretty close to the north-eastern corner of the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve [2], 800km from the nearest McDonalds.

[1] http://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurant

[2] http://g.co/maps/pehrm

Yeah, somewhere between Swan Hill, Mildura and Horsham. Big Desert, or into eastern SA would get you a fair way from a McDonalds.

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