Back in '98, someone asked where the Diamantina is. Often heard of the Diamantina River country from Australians who came over to Canada, some of whom worked cattle here. On the map, it runs a long course, with many often dry branches, in western Queensland, through the Great Artesian Basin, from about the central west area south to where the corner of South Australia pokes into southwestern Queensland. Bob Bolton can expose my ignorance here.
Of course I have read the novels of Arthur Upfield, with the great Inspector "Bony" Bonaparte, the half-caste detective who solved many of his cases in the "outback." One case, I remember, was in the Diamantina area. Cork Station does not make it into the Nat. Geographic Atlas.