Two men lost in the South Australian outback for two days nearly ran out of food and water before they were found by police.
Police rescued the men who were found stranded in their bogged car on a remote dirt track inside Maralinga Tjarutja Lands in the state's far west.
The Mazda utility they were travelling in was missing one of its wheels.
The caretaker of the lands contacted police on Friday afternoon and notified authorities the men were seen travelling on a track.
It is an offence to trespass onto Maralinga Tjarutja Lands without an entry permit approved by the community council.
Yalata police officers travelled about 200 kilometres to Maralinga Village to begin searching for the men.
The two men, aged 34 and 29 from Western Australia, were found bogged in their car that night, about 150 kilometres north of the village on an isolated dirt track.
"The men were completely ill-equipped to make a trip into remote Australia with no means of emergency communication and insufficient supplies," police said in a statement.
"Had it not been for chance that the caretaker had found the pair on his rounds, it is a near certainty that nobody would have been aware of the lost men and their lives would have been in serious jeopardy.
"Police would like to take this opportunity to remind people travelling in regional and remote locations to make sure they are properly equipped to take the journey."
The men were taken back to Ceduna to make their own arrangements home.
