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From Stirling North near Port Augusta, section overseer Bagot's route took the southern section team along the western side of the Flinders Range to Mount Eyre, where it crossed the Range at Hookina Creek Pass, near Hawker. The party didn't use the famous Pichi Richi Pass because it would have involved much heavier clearing of vegetation.

The route had to be cleared for ten metres on either side of the line. A group of men were usually despatched by the overseer to clear the route ahead of the working party for about fifteen kilometres. They had to clear scrub, underwood and cut overhanging limbs of trees. Any tree that would endanger the line was to be cut down by hand.

It was at Hookina Pass that the first temporary repeater station for the Overland Telegraph Line was built.

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