Mind Blown

There is a fence in Australia that is the equivalent distance of London to New York.

Australia is big. Very big. In fact, it's enormous. So enormous that in South-East Australia there's a fence that stretches the equivalent distance of New York to London.That's an almost 6000 km stretch of fencing,and it's all to keep dingoes at bay.

The imaginatively titled 'Dingo Fence' is made of wire-mesh and timber posts stretching for 5614 km, separating the dingoes from the fertile land where sheep and cattle graze.

Be careful leaning on it, though. This fence is partially electrified, and costs a million dollars a year to maintain that's enough to fly from London to New York nearly 2000 times! At night, the fence is illuminated by red and white fluorescent lamps and patrolled by 23 full-time employees.

The Dingo Fence extends all the way from Brisbane down to the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia. If you wanted to walk it, you would need to clear a full six months in your calendar and invest In a good pair of walking shoes.

Mind-blowing distances are pretty common to the Australian landscape.After all, Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada,China, the United States and Brazil.

Anna Creek in South Australia oversees6,000,000 acres, a land-size that is larger than Israel! More than 17,000 heads of cattle are reared there, which makes it the biggest beef cattle producer in the world.