CHECK: DOES THIS FIT WITH THE TRIP MAPPED? The second route proposed by the Hermannsburg travellers would cut the length of the journey considerably. As Bryan Bowman notes, with reference to making the trip from south to north, the Finke is a river of 'very wide bends and to follow it along to Hermannsburg would involve a journey pushing a thousand miles, but across the bends, it reduced the length of the trip to something around 200 miles' (Bowman, 14)
Reference:
Bryan Bowman, "History of Central Australia 1930-1980", by Bryan Bowman, 1989
