Google Maps Measure Crowfly Distance Tutorial
Ever since we saw the movie Tracks and did a bit of research with Tracks Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Tutorial regarding Robyn’s incredible and unbelievable trek, and reading Tim Winton books, we’ve gravitated towards those turquoise waters on the other side of Australia, to us here, on the east coast.
Robyn Davidson ended that trek in an area of Western Australia, that even viewed on a map, is interesting looking, if you are into geography, let alone interesting looking seeing Google and Google Maps images we arrived at, after reading this interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald here this Sunday, 01 June 2025, about a trip “up the road” to the Ningaloo Reef area Tim Winton describes as …
one of the last intact wild places on the planet
Most such geographical research off most articles, these days, will end at Google Maps, and we’re not here to tell you today that anything else happened for us, and we did this on a MacBook Air via Google Chrome version of Google Maps webpages within today’s animated GIF presentation. We were surprised via a right click (ie. webpage oncontextmenu onclick event) menu …
… that we got presented with. Many options were new to us, and the “Measure distance” one …
… is very cute. Once selected the user can hop from place to place on the Google Map and receive useful crowfly distances for your “dream” trips?!
Previous relevant Tracks Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Tutorial is shown below.
Tracks Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson Tutorial
We had the honour of watching a great movie last weekend called “Tracks” which was based on a Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson (played by Mia Wasikowska) from 8/4/1977 to 20/10/1977, and which you can see the route taken in an interactive map below by clicking this link.
If you’ve opened the map above (potentially), and you know a bit about Australian geography, and this is all new to you, you probably now have a mix of questions and emotions …
- Why? … perhaps read the book and/or see the movie
- How … incredible grit, resourcefulness and determination, accompanied by 1 dog (Diggity) and 3 camels (which needed 2 years of research to be able to handle, three intense months of which were with an excellent Afghan camel expert Sallay) and very occasional National Geographic photography meetings with Rick Smolan (as well as financial support from them too), and three weeks with Mr Eddie, a Pitjantjatjara elder and tracker, and people like the Glen-Ayle Homestead owners
- Where … Australia’s outback in parts of Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia, mainly in desert areas such as the Gibson Desert
- When … 8/4/1977 to 20/10/1977 … avoiding summer
Apart from thanks to Robyn Davidson for inspiration here, a big thanks today go to najhaus.files.wordpress.com regarding the map image and Google search engine and Wikipedia online encyclopaedia and the brilliant Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia at the very least.
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