Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the German tourists getting stuck in the Queensland bush - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Google maps have led a pair of German tourists stuck Queensland bush for a week.

The pair rented a four-wheel drive vehicle to drive through wilderness in Cape-York - but the map app sent them into a bog.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Google Maps work differently in such isolated places.

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