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Boundaries can be found to have discrepencies due to worn surveyors chains etc and now that modern electronic surveying equipment is much more accurate these discepencies must be the cause of some horrible border wars around the country.

Originally Posted by mick88

Boundaries can be found to have discrepencies due to worn surveyors chains etc and now that modern electronic surveying equipment is much more accurate these discepencies must be the cause of some horrible border wars around the country.

Queensland-NT border 'in wrong place'

Queensland-NT border 'in wrong place' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Gold Coast surveying team says it has confirmed suspicions that Queensland has claimed Northern Territory land.

Paul Jones and his colleagues have surveyed a 150 kilometre section of the state divide.

He says a small error in 1884 has left Queensland with hectares of NT land.

"It was intended to be exactly two minutes or true north along the 138 degree line," Mr Jones said.

"A slight error in the instrumentation that was used created a bit of an error that grew from the southern end of the border line.

"That one minute and 30 seconds in angular just grows from 10 to 15 millimetres every 100 metres," he said.

"If you keep extending that for the length of that border line - nearly 1000 kilometres - it just grows and grows so you get a little slice of pie favouring Queensland."

Mr Jones says that by the time they reached the Gulf, it resulted in a difference of about 600 metres.

He says the total amount of land involved has not been measured - but it is sizeable.

"It rolls into the Toko and Toomba ranges which is like moonscapes on top and wonderful gullies and gorges and even little waterholes at the bottom," he said.

"It's the beautiful red Simpson Desert National Park at the southern end which is fantastic rolling sand dunes, well vegetated, but magnificent country."

Mr Jones does not expect his findings to change the Queensland-Northern Territory border.