The wonderful golf course of Oz
The huge rolling expanse of emptiness that is Australia's Nullarbor Plain - infamously one of the world's most arduous car journeys - has become the proud home of the world's longest golf course.
It will take you up to seven days to play all 18 holes spread over 848 miles of outback terrain.
The course certainly one for the patient golfer - who will need to spend a huge amount of time behind the wheel, driving miles from one hole to the next on the par 72 hole course.
The antipodean wildlife encountered en route is one of the course's many great attractions. The fourth hole at Nundroo has the biggest population of southern hairy-nosed wombats anywhere in Australia.
Don Harrington, who was there at the course's creation, said: "After a couple of bottles of wine, the germ of an idea was born.
Perhaps we should have a golf course across Australia... from there the embryo was formed - and today, five years later, we're here and we've arrived. That's how it all happened."
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