Show australian camel patrol the australian government maintains its own breeding and training stations for camels the two greatest fences in the world one that bars the pestilential rabbits bit from entering the great wheat belt of western australia the other erected against wild dogs and rabbits along the border of new south wales and south australia are both maintained by government camel patrols today in australia in a country as large as the united states camels stand as an important means of transportation in the arid and semiarid semi arid central and western areas and in some remote i a reas areas are the only means of at all imported from india originally with their afghan breeders bleeders bre eders and handlers camels were introduced to australia as soon as the dryness of the interior became known special beasts and picked men were ferried from india for instance for the benefit of the famous explorers burke and wills who crossed from melbourne on the south coast to the gulf of carpen ataria on the north as early as 1860 and in 1886 camels were imported for all general service and in general service they remain A R in globe magazine |