Talk:Australian Overland Telegraph Line

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Several things about this article aren't right.

For example

1. Why AustralianOverland Telegraph line? Are there others elsewhere? I'm not aware of any. I recommend deleting "Australian" from the title

2. The Overland Telegraph (OT) did not include the line from Western Australia to South Australia which was completed in 1877. That line was an important part of the Australian telegraph system which developed in the C19, but it was never widely considered to be part of the OT. This part of the article needs to be tidied up so that the errors are removed and ambiguities clarified.

3. The caption on the illustration at the top of the article is misleading: where is "Carpentaria" and was the Queensland line ever officially or unofficially known as the Overland Telegraph?

Shortshadow 14:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Film

There's also a 1951 film by the same title as this article. -Mardus 02:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)