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Marree in the Outback. A memorial cairn to the pioneering Afghan cameleers who helped open up outback South Australia.
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Mylor. Warrakilla House 1883 by architect Daniel Garlick. Spring garden.
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Swan Hill. The second brick water tower built in McCallum Street. This simpler tower was built in 1902. Beyond is Elwood House built 1930.
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Risdon Park former Methodist Church. 1921. Now the main Uniting church in Port Pirie.
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Oxley near Milawa. The old 1861 flourmill. Closed and derelict but still in sound physical condition.
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Districts Darling Downs - Tracing shewing the squatting district of Darling Downs [Sketch book 5 folio 27]
by MHNSW - State Archives Collection

Forbes. The Town Hall facing Victoria Squ. Gold royalties permitted a grand structure. The part with the corner tower finished in 1891. The left hand part was the first Town Hall about 1870 when Forbes became a municipality.
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Westwide Snow Survey Training 2016
by NRCS Oregon

The Petronas Towers, the tallest twin towers of the world (HDR)
by Jorge Lascar

Hamilton Victoria. The second St Andrews Presbyterian church in basalt stone and Gothic style. Opened 1909.
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Police Station. Bordertown. Opened 1930 but now part fo a cafe and information centre.
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Adelaide. Autumn afternoon in Belair National Park.
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Surveyor's Camp, A.R. & E.P.R.R
by SMU Libraries Digital Collections

Lancelot ghost town ruins in South Australia. Hotel ruins.
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Adelaide. Statue of Sir Walter Watson Hughes Moonta mining magnate. Donated 20,000 pounds to found the University of Adelaide in 1874 as did Sir Thomas Elder. Statue 1906 in front of the Mitchell building.
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Forbes. The impressive classical looking Lachan Masonic Lodge was probably built in the 1920s.
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Milang. Red hot pokers pidgeons and the Milang Anglican Church. It was built in 1911.
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Echunga. St Mary's Anglican Church. Built in 1851. It had a glebe land grant from Jacob Hagen the founder of the town.
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Family and Shipping Butchers. Ellen Street Port Pirie. Built 1899. Note finely modelled pig bull and sheep across pediment. Providing meat for towns folk and ships in the port.
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Swan Hill. Part of the Heartbeat of the Murray laser show shown at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement nightly. Teh River Murray is in front. Spray is used from the river to porject the images.
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Mt Gambier Club opened in 1904 as offices for lease. Club there since 1913
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The Blue Lake Mt Gambier when it is still grey and just ready to turn brilliant blue.
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Wellington. Built for Commercial Bank of Sydney around 1910, now Stock Agent since 1985. On laneway with chamfered corners, recessed entrance with columns on each side, curved masonry balustrade on balcony.
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Wirrabara. The 1884 Institute closed 1912. It was vacant and then a furniture shop for decades. In 1964 it was converted into an Anglican Church. The 1908 foundation stone was used from an earlier Anglican church .
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Silhoutted emus on a ridge near Hawker.
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Gordon ghost town of the Flinders Ranges on the Willochra Plains. The remains of an underground water tank behind rubble ruins in the main street. Town began 1879. Last resident left 1957. Most gone by 1930.
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Milang. On Lake Alexandrina. Bottoms up and heads down. Pelicans fishing in the lake for lunch.
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Mt Gambier Christ Church Anglican Hall. Original hall 1915 this one a reconstruction built in 1951. The original hall burnt down.
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Marree. South of the town a disused railway culvert filled with rain after heavy spring rains 2020.
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Bay Road home of the founder of the Border Watch newspaper in Mt Gambier.
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Belair. Australian magpie on the edge of the lake in Belair National Park.
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Wirrabara. The fine old foot pump bellows church organ in the Catholic Church. The church was consecrated in 1934.
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Former Congregational Church in Port Pirie. Now a Barnacle Bill restaurant. opened in 1879.
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Marree. The War Memorial Park with date palms.
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Mylor. Veranda and front entrance of Warrakilla House. Designed by Daniel Garlick for SA Surveyor General George Goyder in 1883. Goyder died here.
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Marree in the Outback of South Australia. The Main Street with the hotel and post office in it.
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O’SHAUGHNESSY BRIDGE IN GALWAY [ACROSS THE EGLINGTON CANAL - GAOL RIVER]
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Naracoorte. One of the buildings at Naracoorte House. They date from the 1845ish George Ormerod stone cottage to this two story part Gothic style house erected in 1859 by William MacIntosh..
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Kapunda. The former convent built in 1892 for the Domenican Sisters who ran the Catholic School. It has been a private residence for decades and was formerly owned by convicted paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy.
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Wirrabara. As the sign says a Fairmont Model ST2 railway ganger's maintenance car. Used on the line to Wilmington until around 1989.
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Clare. Bungaree Station. Naturalized South African Sparaxis bulbs flowering near the Bungaree Station Anglican Church.
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Marree. The rear of Marree Railway Station.
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Wirrabara . The interior of the fine Catholic Church. Foundation stone 1930 and church consecrated 1934.
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Atlas Centaur 7 Details: Night Shot of AC 7/Surveyor Date: 09/20/1966
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives

Marree in the Outback of South Australia. The two storey hotel was built in 1882.
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Surveyor General's Sketch books. Cumberland County Botany Parish Stubbs selection of 100 acres
by MHNSW - State Archives Collection

Portland. Basalt cottage built for the Governor of the Gaol 1872 with white Iceberg roses along the fence.
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Watervale. Stone house near the entrance gates to Hughes Park estate. Hughes Park owned by Sir Walter Watson Hughes from 1861. Now owned by the Duncan family.
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Marree. The Marree Hotel was built in 1882 expecting the Great Northern Railway to reach the town in 1884.
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Barmera on Lake Bonney. Graffitti wall on a store room at the ruins of Nappers Bridge Hotel.
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Bordertown. Galvanised iron and clap board old store in the Main Street of Bordertown.
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Marree. The school began in a church here in 1885. This school was built in 1908 and is still in use.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Cloud covered ranges on the outskirts of the town.
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Port Fairy. Talara House. A beautiful Gothic Tudor house with fancy barge boards on the gable ends. Built 1855. Now accommodation for tourists.
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Marree. The disused Oodnadatta and Alice Springs railway line heading north from Marree. The line to Alice Springs opened in 1929 and closed in 1980. Beside the tracks is a temporary lake after heavy spring rains.
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Lancelot ghost town in South Australia. The long ruined corridor in the hotel. Nine rooms lead off this corridor.
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Tortola House Gawler built for timber merchant William Wincey. Later purchased by Alfred May of May Brothers Foundry. Next in 1912 purchased by the Methodist Church for the manse of Tod Street Methodist Church. Gawler, South Australia was founded 1839.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes tanks were built in stone in 1865 to hold water pumped from the Hughes Shaft by the Hughes Enginehouse.
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Kapunda. The Returned Services League Hall or War Memorial Hall in Kapunda.
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Peterborough Town Hall. Now a private house.
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