Coonatto Station. Estalished 1849. Taken over by Grant brothers 1852. Soon had blacksmiths, shearing shed, church schol, workers cottages and homestead. Many structures are now ruins. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Coonatto Station. Estalished 1849. Taken over by Grant brothers 1852. Soon had blacksmiths, shearing shed, church schol, workers cottages and homestead. Many structures are now ruins. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Coonatto, Moockra and the Horseshoe Ranges. Coonatto was the sheep station of Alexander and Frederick Grant who had Coonatto from the 1850s onwards but it was first taken out in 1851 by Hugh Proby. Once the Grant brothers had Coonatto run it totalled 293 square miles with their adjoining runs. Alexander Grant had the famous Kanyaka sheep station and brother Frederick stayed at Coonatto. Coonatto Creek flowed down from the amazing Mookra Horseshoe Mountains. The name Coonatto comes from an Aboriginal word for a type of sandalwood tree which grow there. The station was well established by the 1860s with a shearing shed and good homestead and it later had a small bluestone Anglican Church which was consecrated by Bishop Augustus Short in the 1860s and its own school. In its heyday they sheared 130,000 sheep at Coonatto. Part of it was resumed in the 1870s for closer settlement but that failed. The Hundred of Coonatto was declared in 1876 and the town of Coonatto was optimistically proclaimed in 1884 with 64 town blocks and suburban lands. Few ever sold. The town was ever only important because of its railway station and access to the Horseshoe Ranges. But some grain farmers persisted in the Horseshoe Ranges and when they did produce a wheat crop they could have it railed out to Port Augusta as the small town of Coonatto had a railway siding and station. Coonatto had a government school from 1894 to 1964. In 1903 the government investigated the possibility of an irrigation project on Coonatto Creek! But that did not proceed. Coonatto station has now been run by the same family since 1912 and is now just 12,000 acres in size. The town of Coonatto was changed to Mookra/Moockra in 1941. The wooden railway station was still standing as Moockra station in 1984 but it has probably now crumbled. The Horseshoe Ranges are known as the mini Wilpena Pound. They are a stunning natural phenomena. The Horseshoe Ranges are over 500 metres high and several of the rim peaks are much higher at around 680 metres. One of the high peaks is Mt Stokes which was named after the manager of the Grant’s Coonatto station and the other famous one is the Mockra Tower Rock. The rainfall in the Horseshoe Ranges is 50 mm per year more than the surrounding plains with a total of 300 mm compared with 250 mm at Hammond. Creeks from the north side of the Horseshoe Ranges flow into the Willochra River which ends up in Lake Torrens west of the Flinders Ranges. Some crops of wheat were grown within the Horseshoe Ranges in the late 1870s through to the 1890s. Moockra station and homestead are in the Horseshoe Ranges and have been in the Connell family for over 100 years. They have accommodation for the adventurous as does Coonatto homestead. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-01-10 14:43:05 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |