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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The World War Two Honour Roll in the Beltana community hall.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. The Flinders Food Company cafe and restaurant on a sunny winter's day in July school holidays.
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Quorn. The Ghan Express heritage train on the Pichi Richi railway being hauled by a steam locomotive en route from Quorn to Port Augusta.
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Farina ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. This is the old railway bridge as seen from below in the creek bed. The Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here in 1882.
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Pich Richi Pass. The worlds last operating steam rail car. The Coffee Pot. Pichi Richi Railway through the Pass allows acces into the Flinders Ranges from Port Augusta to Quorn. This Great Northern Railway line was built in 1878.
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Wonoka ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. Stone ruins and the ranges beyond.
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Brachina in the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the old railway station masters house. Near Brachina Gorge on the Great Northern Railway to Farina which opened in 1882.
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Winninowie 25 kms south of Port Augusta. Former Presbyterian Church now a house. Opened 1938 as James Holdsworth Memorial church. Closed 1963. Original timber church opened here 1890.
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Wonoka. Ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. Views of the ranges from the town site which was established in 1880.
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Ikara Flinders Ranges National Park. The rocky strata that forms the edge of Wilpena Pound an amazing natural amphitheatre.
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Wirirabra. A single classroom government school opened in 1879. This block of several red brick classrooms was built and opened in 1921. Alas Wirrabara School closed at the end of 2017 with just eleven pupils.
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Baroota.SA. Ruins of Baroota homestead at Mambray Creek. Unocccupied since 1969 in Mt Remarkable National Park. Dates from 1853. First owned by the Yeates brothers. Pug and native pine construction with stone fire places.
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Not far from Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train excursion going around a sharp curve. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges through Pichi Richi Pass. This Great Northern Line was built in 1878.
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Leigh Creek. One of the river bridges on the Leigh Creek coal train line. Windy Creek.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Near Hawker.
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Wonoka in the Flinders Ranges. The remains of the railway station and rail worker's barracks. Near Hawker. Railway reached here in May 1882. .
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LR3 Climbing a rise in the Flinders Ranges
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Lyndhurst in the Flinders Ranges. These colourful red to white ochre deposits were quarried by the local Aboriginal people and the rare red and orange ochre was traded to Aboriginal groups across SA and into Queensland.
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Copley. In the Flinders Ranges. Flowering sedge plant growing in rocks beside the Copley retention dam.
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Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of Kanyaka sheep station established in 1852. The stone buildings were erected in the late 1850s. They included mens dining room, staff accommodation etc.
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Leigh Creek in the Flinders Ranges. Australia wild flower. Solanum sturtiana named after explorer Captain Charles Sturt. A member of the nightshade family of plants.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. These semi desert plains were opened up for wheat farmers in the 1870s. Now Wilson is a deserted ghost town. Only the cemetery remains.
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Flinders Ranges.The Surveyors memorial cairn. In background 3 posts from the 1872 Overland Telegraph line which linked Port Augusta with Darwin and thence to London.
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Lyndhurst in the Flinders Ranges. These natural ochre pits were used by the Aboriginal people and traded to Queensland and across SA. The ochre ranges from white to yellow to orange to red.
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Quorn. Steam engine getting ready to take tourists on the Ghan Express from Quorn to Port Augusta through the Pichi Richi Pass in the Flinders Ranges.
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Wilmington South Australia. The purple noxious weed Salvation Jane from the Echium family growing in a paddock.
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Laura. The Laura Milling Company flourmill was built in 1878. Fire destroyed most of it in 2015. It only closed in the 1970s.
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Commodore near Parachilna. Old large railway barracks and railway station south of Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here in 1882. It closed in 2017.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. View from Huck's lookout towards Wilpena Pound.
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Flinders Ranges
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. The Welcome to Nepabunna sign in the Adnyamathanha lands.
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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.
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway green steam train on a big curve. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. This Great Northern Line built in 1878.
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Cradock South Australia on the way to Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Catholic Church opened 1883. Now privately owned. (2)
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This copper mining town was established in 1864. This cottage dates from the 1860s in Blinman right next to North Blinman established in 1867. .
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. The northern view from St Marys Peak on the edge of Wilpena Pound. Part of the 45 metre panorama of Wilpena Pound a natural amphitheatre. Painted by Jeff Morgan in the Morgan Art Gallery.
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Beltana in the South Australian Flinders Ranges. The former Royal Victoria Hotel built in 1878. Closed as a licensed hotel in 1958. Now a private residence.
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Blinman old copper mining town of the Flinders Rangns. This standstone police officer's house was built around 1874 when the Police Station was built by the government. Now a private residence.
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Quorn. The old 1916 railway station now starting point of the Pichi Richi railway which travels through Pichi Richi Pass to Port Augusta.
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Angorichina in the Flinders Ranges. This village complex was built as a TB sanitorium for soldiers returning from World War One. Opened 1927. A rusty old shed from the early years.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The entrance to Beltana sheep station. Owned by Sir Thomas Elder in the 1860s. Run by Beltana Pastoral Company from the 1890s.
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Copley in the Flinders Ranges. Two old rusty trucks and two interested donkeys.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. A most unsual headstone in the pioneer cemetery. Draped marble urn but a black hand with a white book.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. A small outback town only needs a small railway station. The railway reached here in 1882.
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Wilpena Pound. Near the Pound is the old shearing shed of Rawnsley Park sheep station.
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Farina in the Flinders Ranges. The historic cemetery of this now ghost town.
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Leigh Creek in the Flinders Ranges. This town was purpose built by ETSA for the coal miners in 1982. The Area School has few pupils left today as the mines closed five years ago.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Silhoutted emus on a ridge near Hawker.
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Angorichina in the Flinders Ranges. In 1927 a WW1 soldiers' tuberculosis sanitorium opened here. It closed in 1973. Restored cabins are now used for tourist accommodation.
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Commodore near Parachilna. Old railway barracks and station south of Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here in 1882. It closed in 2017.
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In the Flinders Ranges. Burnt out grass trees reshooting after a bush fire. Botanically known as Xanthorrhoea. .
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train excursion crossing a stone road bridge. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. This Great Northern Line built in 1878.
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LR3 HSE Discovery 2007
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Hawker inthe Flinders Ranges. Salvation Jane or also known as Patersons Curse is a noxious weed but very pretty when covering acres of land. It is a type of Echium.
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Farina ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. The railway fettlers house. Built around 1890. Fine bluestone with circular air vents in the end gables.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway reached here in 1882. This massive blue stone station was built around that time. Closed as a railway station in 1980..
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Wilpena Pound behind the Cazneaux tree made famous by an Australian photographer.
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Old stripper in Carrieton South Australia. On the fringes of agricultural rather than pastoral land. The stripper was the wheat farmer's friend.
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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. Large copper scultpure near the town information centre.
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