Ultimately this would ensure that a nation-wide, homogeneous network existed within which all future survey and mapping work could be kept consistent within and across State and Territory borders. His work however, being published only in a single and limited circulation journal, is not widely known. The recent emergence of some of H. Beadell graded the track from Giles to Carnegie Homestead along the route reconnoitred by H.
The Talgarno facility, now abandoned, was near Anna Plains WA and had an airstrip, meteorological facilities and had the project proceeded was to grow to be a small town not unlike Woomera itself.
Akin to Giles which was mid-range, Talgarno was down-range. The Talgarno Prohibited Area was more than just a stretch of desert about the size of France; since much of the value of the Blue Streak lay in how closely to the target it could land its nuclear warhead at the end of its long ballistic trajectory, Talgarno was to be well instrumented to fix the point of impact to within 30 metres.
Natmap completed this work in late only to learn that the British Government had announced the project's cancellation. As will be read later, a Natmap geodetic field party was responsible for recovering parts of one of these vehicles after its re-entry.
Two geodetic surveys through this region were chiefly responsible for the making of two new east-west routes a and b in Figure 1 above across this part of Australia, and the complete opening up of this vast desert country.
