Luke I Amyofath

Just to give you some idea how big Australia is here's the story of the cop whose beat is bigger than Britain:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...006010,00.html

Vash the Stampede

What a legend.

DrWho

His poor wife...! Dunno about his patrol of 300k km2 being one seventh of the state though... thought NSW was about 800 km2...

jon and alex

hmmm, according to wikipedia the land area of NSW is 800'642km2 so I reckon you're right!!!

Luke I Amyofath

In any case, I just cant imagine watching an episode of the bill where a copper says, "Ive gotten a call about some rowdy behaviour in Inverness, I'll be back in a few days"

jon and alex

Yeah right!!! I imagined being called to an abandoned car in Skye!
Reckon it must be pretty lonely though and I wouldn't fancy it much. Good luck to the bloke!

Dorothy

Where I lived in Northern Ontario our local OPP station had 2 cops who rotated shifts. The station house closed at 10 pm and was not open on weekends or holidays. If you needed to get in contact with a cop it was either Marathon or Thunder Bay; both 160km away - Marathon to the east and Thunder Bay to the west. One of the cops was a friend of mine and he patrolled about 100km of highway every day.

thebears

From To Distance Time (Hours)
Melbourne To Sydney 882 miles 9 Hours
Sydney To Brisbane 938 miles 10 Hours
Brisbane To Cairns 1700 miles 19 Hours
Cairns To Darwin 2855 miles 31 Hours
Darwin To Broome 1878 miles 20 Hours
Broome To Perth 2102 miles 24 Hours
Perth To Alice Springs 3616 miles 39 Hours
Alice Springs To Adelaide 1534 miles 17 Hours
Adelaide To Melbourne 729 miles 8 Hours
Total 16234 miles 177 Hours

My calculation of driving times

DrWho

Yo TB...

Are you sure you haven't got your miles for Kms mixed up...?
Some of that looks like averaging 150+ kph which should get all sorts of people interested in your life story...

thebears

Yes your right sorry still thinking in miles but the website showed everything in Km Long drives though whether in Kms or miles

DrWho

Yup... We drove Sydney to Cape Tribulation and back in August/September last year... Some great places but also huge stretches of just absolutely nothing...