Angle Pole is a locality in the Northern Territory where the direction of the Telegraph Line changed to a more northerly direction.

Transport

It is also the eastern terminus of a still-born land grant railway from Roebuck Bay

Roebuck Bay

Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point. It is named after HMS Roebuck, the ship captained by William Dampier when he explored the coast of...

 across the border in Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. This railway was proposed by a London syndicate around 1889 and would have been about 1000 miles (1600 km) long.