mallee

Ngarkat Conservation Park South Australia. Australian native Mallee eucalyptus tree covered in cream flowers in Spring.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. Colourful mural on the flora and fauna of the heath and Mallee lands of the park.
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Goyder near Whitwarta. Mallee and bush track.
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Mallee Symbol
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Clements Gap in the Hummock Ranges. This plaque marks the site of the Clements Gap government School. 1892 to closure in 1942. The first school opened in 1880 and clsoed 1882. Some 393 students attended the school to 1942..
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Clements Gap. This was the site of the first school 1880 to 1882. Anew weatherboard school opened in 1892. It closed in 1942 and was moved to Koolunga in 1947..
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Inneston. Old gypsum mining town. They mined Lake Inneston seen in photo. Gypsum mined 1913 to 1930. Town of Inneston is now a ghost town. Visible the ruins of the general store. Town closed 1930. Now Innes National Park .
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Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. A private gypsum mining town from 1913 to 1930. This Post Office was restored and opened for holiday letting in 2002. Innestonghost town is now in Innes National Park.
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Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. A small part of the former Bellco Chalk factory of Inneston. It operated from 1922 to 1930 before moving to Melbourne.
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Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. Information Board about the Bellco Chalk factory which operated in the town from 1922 to 1930. Later operations were in Melbourne.
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Yorke Peninsula. Innes Dhilba Guuranda National Park. Near Stenhouse Bay. The rugged coastline near Cape Spencer.
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Yorke Peninsula. Innes Dhilba Guuranda National Park. At West Cape there are panormaic views of Pondalowie Bay the second bay to the north. Other views look towars Kangaroo Island, Althorpe Island, Middle Island etc.
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Yorke Peninsula. Innes Dhilba Guuranda National Park. Near Stenhouse Bay. Looking towards Cape Spencer.
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. A miners limestone cottage now available to holiday lets.
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. Dunny overlooking Lake Inneston once mined for gypsum. .
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. The remains of a substantial limestone block cottage.
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. The remains of a substantial limestone cottage.
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Morgan. This river port is in the Hundred of Eba. Cut out figures and dog on the old Eba railway station platform. The railway reached Morgan and Eba in 1878.
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Sherlock in the Murray Mallee. The remains of the railway station platform in Sherlock.
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Brownlow South Australia on the River Murray Flats in Mallee country. The Brownlow Centre School built by a local farmer on his land. It operated as a state school from 1923 to 1937. Now in ruins. .
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Brownlow South Australia on the River Murray Flats. Mallee country. Brownlow Centre School built by a local farmer. Operated as a state school from 1923 to 1937. Brownlow School operated in the Lutheran Church 1910 to 1946 miles away. .
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Brownlow South Australia on the River Murray Flats. Mallee country. The Brownlow Centre School built by a local farmer. It operated as a state school from 1923 to 1937. Brownlow School operated inthe Lutheran Church 1910 to 1946. .
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Dutton near Truro. The buttressed wall of the Dutton blacksmith shop. It was built in 1875 by Carl Schmidt one of the German settlers of the town. His descendants ran the business into the 1940s.
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Dutton near Truro. The buttressed wall of the Dutton blacksmith shop. It was built in 1875 by Carl Schmidt. His descendants ran the business into the 1940s.
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Dutton South Australia. The interior of St Johns Lutheran Church built in 1871. Scripture texts still in old German script. .
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Monarto South Australia. The old Bretag farm house on a limestone ridge in Mallee country. Hard to see but near the wall of the house is an emu.
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Monarto South Australia. The old Bretag farm house on a limestone ridge in Mallee country.Recently restored.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. The Methodists bought the 1884 tin Baptist church in 1887 which they used till this stone Methodist Church was built in 1906.The rear vestry was added in 1922 and the hall in 1954.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. This Baptist tin church used 1884 to 1887. Methodist Church and state school 1887 to 1906. General store and Post Office from 1908. Closed 1994. .
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. War Memorial entrance gates to the Weetulta oval. Erected in 1947.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Wheat crop on a showering winter afternoon in August. Redwing Farm.
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Weetulta. Redwing Farm 1950s shearing shed still in use for shearing but also for functions. It has three fine crystal chandeliers!
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Tiparra on Yorke Pemimsula. Canola crop in the last week of August near Tiparra Lutheran Church.
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Patchewollock. Giant metal and iron Mallee Fowl. They live near this town in the bush and in Wyperfield National Park. This is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Patchewollock. Information board on the Mallee Fowl. Sited next to three giant metal sculptures of Mallee Fowls.
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Patchewollock. Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church. Built in 1957.
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Patchewollock. The first school opened in 1920. This fine stone school was built in 1927. This town is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail. The town was covered in smoke from bushfires 100s of kms away.
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Patchewollock. The old wooden railway station. The start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail in the Wimmera.
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Patchewollock. The start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail. The former Methodist Church built around 1929. Now a combined Uniting and Anglican Church.
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Patchewollock. The starting point of the Victorian Silo Art Trail in the Wimmera. Grain growing country of the Mallee.
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Speed. In the Victorian Wimmera. The old wooden public hall with unusual rusty steel buttresses on the sides to keep it together. .
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Patchewollock in the Victorian Wimmera. The Methodist Church built around 1929. It is now an Anglican and Uniting Church.
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Patchewollock near Wyperfield National Park. The Mallee farmer as Silo Art. This is the starting town of the Victorian Silo Art Trail in the Wimmera.
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Patchewollock. The former Presbyterian Church. Probably erected around 1930. Now a residence with a vandalised facade.
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Patchewollock. Detail of the Mallee farmer on the local silo. This is part of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Patchewollock. Foundation stone of the Catholic Church.
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Patchewollock. Giant galvanised iron Mallee Fowl. They live near this town in the bush and in Wyperfield National Park. This is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Patchewollock. Giant metal Mallee Fowl. They live near this town in the bush and in Wyperfield National Park. This is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail.
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Mercunda. State school site plaque. It was held in Mercunda Hall. Mercunda was located on the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line which opened in 1915.
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Mercunda. The former Mercunda hall now in ruins. Apart from being the local social centre it was also a state school from 1921 when it opened until 1956.
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Mercunda. The Mercunda hall and state school is now in ruins. Firepalce was needed for the state school. It operated from 1921 to 1956. Also used as a Congregational Church.
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Bower on the Murray Flats. The ruins of the Bower lime burning kilns which opened around 1900 and closed a few decades later when demand for lime mortar in Adelaide waned. They are heritage listed by SA.
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Underbool Methodist Church built in 1925. It became a Uniting Church in 1977. Closed in 2014 when the Anglican and Uniting Church formed a cooperative. Now a residence.
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Underbool Methodist Church built in 1925. It became a Uniting Church in 1977. Closed in 2014 when the Anglican and Uniting Church formed a cooperative.
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Underbool. The Anglican Church built around 1962. The Cooperative Union with the Uniting Church was reisntated in 2014. The adjcaent Methodist Uniting Church closed then.
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Underbool. The green painted Catholic Church. Erected in the 1960s.
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Underbool. The green painted Catholic Church. Erected in the 1960s. It is still in use.
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Underbool. The Women's Section of the Victorian Farmers Union club rooms built in 1924. The Farmers Union became the Country Party of Victoria.
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Ouyen. The original 1913 Methodist Church. It was relocated to the Presbtyerian Church probably in 1977.
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Walpeup. The former Methodist Church erected in 1937. It is now the Anglican Uniting Church within the Mallee Cooperative.
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