Mungerannie Hotel

Airport (MNE) Latitude: -28.0 ( South 28° 0' 0" )   Longitude: 138.6 ( East 138° 36' 0" )

Road Distances 301km South of Birdsville Qld 210km North of Maree, Sth Australia

on the Birdsville Track

Dulkaninna Trig Point

Government Surveyor Samuel Parry spent much of the years 1857 and 1858 surveying the northern Flinders Ranges for pastoral occupation, and extended the survey north beyond the line of the Mound Springs, into country never before seen by Europeans.

Cairns of this kind were built to serve as artificial land marks in featureless country, so that compass bearings could be taken to them from different directions as part of the triangulation process essential to accurate land surveys.

The Trig Point is more than thirty years older than Dulkaninna homestead, which is visible about 3km to the north.

The site consists of a tall pile of dry-laid dark stones about 2.5m in height, standing on a slight rise. It is a conspicuous landmark, visible for several kilometres on the flat plain.