Wonderfully reliable, camels helped in hauling food and equipment to the frontier gold towns, in building the overland telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin, and in surveying the Trans - Australian Railway connecting Sydney and Perth.
Imeliselt visad kaamelid aitasid kanda toitu ja varustust piiriäärsetesse linnadesse, kus kaevandati kulda; rajada telegraafiliine Adelaide’ist Darwinisse ja mõõdistada Austraalia raudteed, mis ühendab Sydneyt Perthiga.