Sam and Lenoard were stationed there and heard the numbers, Sam guessed the bean jar there, Mrs. Toomey still lives there.* I was just googling it to see how big it was, and came across the fact that it has one of the world's largest goldmines.* Maybe there's a clue in the town itself somewhere?

(Do we know where exactly Locke's Walkabout Tour was located?)

http://www.atn.com.au/wa/desert/towns-b.htm

http://www1.superpit.com.au/

The best map I could find that shows where it is in relation to the coastline .. not sure this will work since the URL is so large but I'll give it a shot:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.auinfo.com/western_Australia_Map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.auinfo.com/Western_Australia_map.htm&h=411&w=376&sz=10&tbnid=UYEX_w_h9c0J:&tbnh=120&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwestern%2Baustralia%2Bmap%26hl%3Den%2 6lr%3D&oi=imagesr&start=2

It was out of Melbourne don't think we were told were the trip itself went.

This has really annoyed me about the Locke character. This Walkabout is a life quest.
He goes doesn't check about wheelchair access. Did he never checks other tours in the whole continent if even for price checks or to see whats offered. He had a computer. It made no sense.

i was looking at the names on the map that kato provided (the one with the huge URL)

around Kalgoorlie are funny town or places names

Leonara => weirdly looks like Leonard
Mount Magnet => black rock (hill, mount, whatever) and magnetic issues (such as the compass)
Newman => In german, Newman is "Neumann" => von Neumann was responsible for the philadelphia and montauk experiments (in German "von" means "from")

Kalgoorlie has the biggest open pit gold mine in Australia, 'The Super Pit' which is an awesome 4 km long, 1.5 km wide
anyone see the 4 & 15 numbers there ? :D

Mount Magnet => black rock (hill, mount, whatever) and magnetic issues (such as the compass)



I find this most interesting. I, too, have been researching Kalgoorlie and was led to a museum exhibit displaying a chunk of meteorite. The picture looked like a black rock, and I found that intriguing. Here's what I learned.

Two meteorites were found in Western Australia in 1966, Mundrabilla I and II. Mundrabilla I had a mass, I believe, of 11.7 tons. Both meteorites have large concentrations of iron alloy materials. Now, chunks of Mundrabilla meteorite are being studied by different nations and agencies. NASA has a chunk that it is studying to help identify new materials for use in the space program.

Further searches of Mundrabilla meteorite brought me to this site.

http://www.fmm.ru/meteoren.htm

Notice, almost as a footnote there is a reference to scientist's theories that organic compounds found in meteorites may be the source of life on earth.

Suppose there was more of Mundrabilla on an island in the Pacific. Suppose it contained organic compounds. Could this be the source of a "sickness?" Could high concentrations of iron be the source of magnetic disturbances that interfere with navigational equipment on planes and ships? Could the entire island have it's foundation on a meteorite? Could that explain why a scientific team would be attracted to it, and why other vessels might also have crashed there instead of the middle of the ocean?

shootfire

Kalgoorlie is a pretty interesting place.* Giant gold mines, (and other metals), huge meteorites, it's near aborigiinal territory and I guess it's at least on the edge of* the Outback.* If they chose it for a reason, there are plenty of leads to pursue.

By the way, when I originally read the transcript for Numbers, it placed Mrs. Toomey in Kalgoorlie.* That has been removed.* I know it was removed because I copied the transcripts to a clipboard to search for something, and my copy doesn't match the current transcript.* Now it's just "the middle of nowhere."*