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Wilmington. Sensuous mountains at the entrance to Horrocks Pass through the Flinders Ranges.
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The esplanade and wharves at Port Augusta at the top of Spencers Gulf South Australia.
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Port Augusta Post Office buill around 1879. The old post slits. Now a private residence.
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Orroroo. Looking over the area that was developed for irrigated dairies from 1906 after the reservoir was built on Pekina Creek.
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Willochra.This ghost town established 1878 following good rains in semi desert land. The town thrived for a few years then slowly died. Nothing remains but for the cemetery and this memorial cairn. Info plaque stolen.
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Farina. Ghost town of the South Australian outback. The ruins of the local brothel next to the ruins of the first Police Station!
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Orroroo. The former Bank of South Australia. Built in the 1930s. Closed a few years ago. Now a private residence.
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P00122-099F
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The railway station platform and the station sign with a new statue of the district cowboy or stockman and some tourists.
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Port Augusta Court House marked VR for Victoria Regina. Built in 1884. Use ceased in 2007.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Sculpture of one of the Ediacaran world famous fossils of the first milticelled life one earth. Dicksonia.
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Orroroo. The old SA Farmers Union Butter Factory. Built 1921. Closed 1970s. First butter factory in Orroroo was in 1907 the Walloway Butter Factory.
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Port Augusta in Gladstone Square. A bronze of former Mayor Joy Baluch who was mayor for 29 years. Bronze created by Linda Klarfeld and unveiled 2015.
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Orroroo. The 1906 reservoir is no longer used but it still fills with water. It is on Pekina Creek.
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Wilmington. This Bible Christian Methodist Church was built in 1880. It became Methodist in 1900. This Soldiers Memorial porch was added in 1926.
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Port Augusta. The Gothic facade of the 1885 Presbyterian Church.
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L G Blinman, Councillor, North East Ward, 1970-71
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. A model of a shepherds hut in the Hawker Bakery. Mayo's hut on the Heysen Trail near the ghost town of Wonoka.
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Orroroo. The 1906 reservoir is no longer used but it still fills with water. It is on Pekina Creek.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The town school. A school opened in the early 20th century. These wooden buildings date from the 1950s. The school closed in the mid 1980s.
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Wonoka in the Flinders Ranges. The remains of the west facing railway station. It was built around 1882 when the Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here.
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Orroroo. The entrance to the former Bank of South Australia. Built in the 1930s. Closed a few years ago.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The town school. A school opened in the early 20th century. The two wooden buildings at the site date from the 1950s. The school closed in the mid 1980s.
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. The interior of the galvanised iron Methodist Church erected around 1874. It closed around 1943 and became the libary. Now it is the information centre with new external cladding.
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Parachilna. A heritage listed fettlers cottage on the Great Northern Railway line. Built around 1890.
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Orroroo. Looking over the area that was developed for irrigated dairies from 1906 after the reservoir was built on Pekina Creek.
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Wilmington. The Country Womens' Association Club Rooms in the Main Street. Built in local stone in 1953.
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. Old copper miners cottage built in 1862 when copper mining was strong.. State Library of SA.PRG 1218341517G.
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Port Augusta Power Station in the far distance and the city in front. South Australia.
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Parachilna. The 1956 built railway station used by the Old Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
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Acacia tree (near Old Wirrealpa Mine, north of Blinman-Wirrealpa Road, Flinders Ranges, South Australia) 1
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Port Augusta Railway Station built in 1917 for opening of the transcontinental service from Sydney to Perth. Architectural drawings.
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Orroroo. Originally built in the 1880s as a Bible Christian Methodist Church. Probably closed in 1900 as a church. New facade added. Now the Orroroo Senior Citizens Club. Romanesque rounded church windows.
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Orroroo Institute. Designed by Adelaide architect Daniel Garlick in 1880. A soldiers memorial facade was added in 1924.
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Hawker. Morning sunshine on the 1927 built sotne school classrooms. The school first opened in 1883.
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1995 1010 John in Blinman for his 50th
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Orrorroo. The classical revival Methodist Sunday School built in 1934 of local reddish iron stone. An unsual building for Orrorroo.
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Archaeocyathan limestone (Wilkawillina Limestone, Lower Cambrian; ridgetop east of Old Wirrealpa Mine, Flinders Ranges, South Australia)
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Port Augusta.The derelect Town hall tower. The state government owns the land and the City of Port Augusta owns the building and neither will take resposibility for restoring this grand 19th century building.
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Port Augusta. The foundation stone 1886 of the grand Town Hall. Now derelict.
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Port Augusta. The old Institute building erected in 1876.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. The old original walls of the 1893 Hawker Institute. It has a modern brick facade these days.
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Acacia tree (near Old Wirrealpa Mine, north of Blinman-Wirrealpa Road, Flinders Ranges, South Australia) 3
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Port Augusta. Freight train from Darwin passing through the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens.
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Parachina in the Flinders Ranges. Identification board of the world heritage Ediacaran fossil samples at the Prairie Hotel.
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Flinders Ranges. South Australia. SCreen shot of the former Parachilna Primary School. It closed some years ago.
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Port Augusta. The oringal grand ironstone state primary school. Built 1878. Closed years ago. Now a campus of the University of Adelaide.
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Centenary plaque unveiled in 1983. The current stone buildings were erected in 1927.
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Blinman Hotel 1
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Port Augusta West. veranda of Police Station built in local red iron stone. Built 1879 for 950 pounds.
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Port Agusta. Arid Lands Botanic Gardens kangaroo sculpture and the Fliidners Ranges beyond.
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Historic Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. Information board about the copper smelters located on this spot from 1863.
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Port Augusta. The old state High School. This building was opened in 1952.
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Port Augusta. Small sailing boats at the top of Spencer Gulf.
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Port Augusta. Sturt Desert peas in the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Information board on the history of the Hawker Institute.
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Port Augusta Bible Christian Methodist Church and Sunday School. Built 1885 in Gothic style. Unusual in design. .
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