The Dingo Fence.

The Dingo Fence

It's hard to believe that Australia has the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence and it's 5,614km long, 15 km from Coober Pedy.  It was built in 1885 to protect the sheep in the southern states of Australia by keeping out dingoes and other wild dogs.

The idea for the dingo proof fence emerged in the late 19th century, with the first rabbit-proof fences being built in the 1860's and 1870's to protect crops from the introduced rabbit populations.

The construction of the fence began in the 1940's with the idea of joining existing fences creating a continuous barrier which goes through 3 States of Australia.  Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.  

The fence is 180 cm or 6ft high and of wire mesh.

While designed to protect livestock, the fence has had significant impacts on native wildlife, including increased kangaroo populations inside the fence due to the lack of dingo predation.  There are still ongoing debates regarding the fence.

Longest Fence!

Here in Australia there is a long fence.
The fence was built during the 1880s and finished in 1885.  Now this fence is the longest in the World!

The fence stretches 5,614 kms (3,488 mile) through thousands of kms of arid land.

Main reason for having this ever so long fence is to keep the dingoes out of the fertile land of our continent to protect the sheep in many areas.  This has been partly successful, though dingoes can still be found in parts of the southern states of Australia.

We visited this fence at Coober Pedy where it's very arid.