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The closest land feature to the geographical centre of Australia is not Central Mt Stuart, as the explorer John McDouall Stuart thought when he originally named it Central Mt Sturt after the explorer Charles Sturt. It is more likely to be Chambers Pillar, also named by Stuart.
Officially, there is no single point that is the geographical centre of Australia, as there are various means to calculate this.
- The Lambert gravitation centre calculates it as being 25° 36' 36.4" South, 134° 21' 17.3" East.
- The Centre of gravity method places the geographical centre as being at 23° 07' 00" South, 132° 08' 00" East.
- Using calculations to find the farthest point from the coastline, the centre is located at 23° 02' 00" South, 132° 10' 00" East.
- The Median point, which is calculated as the midpoint between the extremes of latitude and longitude of the Australian continent, puts the centre at 24° 15' 00" South, 133° 25' 00" East.
- The Johnston Geodetic station, an older survey point, puts it at 25° 56' 49.3" South, 133° 12' 34.7" East.
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