With the World Solar Challenge entry Sungroper well underway we flew to Darwin to do a test drive of the route down to Adelaide as nobody in the team had driven the road before. We made it a bit of a holiday and did all the touristy things as they wouldn't really be practical during the race. We drove the route exactly one year before the race in 2001. Peter, Nikola and Neil Lewis accompanied me on the trip.
| Darwin/ | We flew into Darwin and spent a couple of days looking around before heading for Adelaide
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| Mataranka/ | Mataranka hot springs is a holiday camp set up near a natural hot spring
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| Devils Marbles/ | Devils Marbles is a large collection of big rocks sitting above ground between Tennant Creek and Alice Springs
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| Uluru/ | Uluru or Ayres Rock is a large monolith in the middle of nowhere
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| Kata Tjuta/ | Kata Tjuta or The Olgas is a series of monoliths that are near Uluru
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| Border Crossing/ | The border between Northern Territory and South Australia
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| Cooberpedy/ | Cooberpedy is an opal mining town in South Australia
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