The expedition leaving Adelaide will follow a north-easterly course along the lush river valleys of the Murray and Darling for 200-300 kilometres. The route of both Charles Sturt’s 1844-45 expedition and Hot Footing Australia expedition 1999 will then plunge deep into the outback for some 2750 kilometres where the average midday temperature is over 100° F. It is greened by few oases, is crossed by no trade routes, and is second only to the Sahara as the largest area of desert and semi-desert in the world. From Birdsville, the expedition will continue on a due north-westerly course navigating the remaining 1000 kilometres of outback. The remaining 300 or so kilometres will be spent in heavily wooded wetland, saturated each year by violent thunderstorms and monsoon rains, until the dramatic coastline of the Indian Ocean appears upon where the expedition will end in Darwin, having crossed the entire continent of Australia on foot, some 4000km.