The One Ton Post was erected by Mr John Cameron in 1881 to celebrate the completion of two long and hard years of surveys to mark the straight line section of the NSW/Qld border. The Post is situated about 6km south west of Mungindi where the border fence leaves the river and goes 700km due west, on the 29th Parallel, to the South Australian Border.
The One Ton Post was marked "QL" on the north side, "New South Wales J Cameron GS" on the south side and "Lat 29" on the west side.
Due to datum changes and better technology the border is no longer on the 29th Parallel, but remains where it was originally marked on the ground in the 1880's.
In the 1990's a local fencer, the late Bob Glass, built a roof over the post to protect it. He also built a small hut nearby, now signposted as "The Fencers Hut".
For more information on the One Ton Post call into the Tourist Information Centre based in the Rural Transaction Centre located in the centre of Mungindi in St George Street.
More information about the NSW/Qld border can be found in the following PDF..
Redefining the Queensland-New South Wales Border: Guidelines for Surveyors
Further regarding this location, in 2008, Honourable Craig Wallace approved an official name for a fourth corner on the QLD/NSW border - Gregory and Greaves corner. The name Gregory and Greaves Corner honours Sir Augustus Charles Gregory and William Albert Greaves, who surveyed and marked parts of the Queensland-New South Wales border in 1865.
This cache is dedicated to Keith (of GeoPilots). Keith was a land surveyor who worked for the NSW government and he resurveyed the straight part of the NSW-QLD border in the very early 2000s. He was particularly keen to promote this historically and geographically important landmark and to share the satisfaction of geocaching and visiting the site with others. Sadly, he passed away in 2011. Liz (of GeoPilots) continued to maintain the geocache where she could. In November 2024, Liz adopted this cache out to wayn0.
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