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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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Woolshed Flat railway station. Rail excursion from Quorn. Pichi Richi Pass follows a gorge through the Flinders Ranges from Pt Augusta to Quorn. The Great Northern Railway was built in 1878. Turning the engine.
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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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Blinman old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. This old sandstone Police Station with the cells behind was built in 1874. Long since closed as a police station.
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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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Quorn. Landscape near Quorn taken from the Ghan Express tourist train going through the Pichi Richi Pass.
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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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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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Wilson cemetery between Hawker and Quorn. Town founded 1881 for wheat farmers. Beyond Goyders Line and farming failed. Hopes broken. Government folly. So sad.Such a harsh environment.
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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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Copley in the Flinders Ranges. Pretty violet coloured and shaped little flowers among the rocks beside the old coal mines retention dam.
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Copley. Panorama of the small Outback town of Copley near the former Leigh Creek brown coalfields. In the background is part of the Frome Ranges a part of the Flinders Ranges.
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train going around a sharp curve beside the road. 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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Quorn. Old steam engine used on the Pichi Richi railway steaming into the railway station.
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Hammond. Ghost town beyond Goyders Line. The old Hammond District Council Offices. Built in 1913.
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Hawker. Flinders Ranges. Old galvanised iron fronterd general store.
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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 shearers quarters, mens dining room, staff accommodation et.
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Melrose. The old flourmill which became Jacka Brothers brewery. Mill built 1878. Brewery ran 1893 to 1934.
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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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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. St Marks Anglican Church opened in 1966. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Fargher.
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Wilmington South Australia. The bright purple noxious weed Salvation Jane from the Echium family growing in a paddock.
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Farina. Ghost town north of the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the Exchange Hotel built in the 1880s.
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Looking across the top of Spencers Gulf Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges.
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Lyndhurst in the Flinders Ranges. White ochre deposits beside the amazing orange and red deposits. Ochre was used by Aboriginal people for art, body painting for corroborrees etc.
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Farina ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. Ruins of the Guard's House at the railway station. It and the goods shed havegone. Built around 1885 as the railway reached here 1882. The railway water tank is beyond it.
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Nelshaby and the Southern Flinders Ranges. JPG
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. North Arkaba state school opened in a pug and pine Primitive Methodist Church in 1879. This fine stone school room opened in 1888. North Arkaba School closed in 1944.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Ancient multi celled World Heritage Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel. Worth seeing.
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Farina ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. View from the ruins of the stone Exchange Hotel which had the general store next Hotel. Built 1879. Being covered in sand in 1936 and closed 1937.. .
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Quorn railway yards now operated by Pichi Richi heritage railway society. Old water tank with Amgourie tea advertisement and some old rolling stock.
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Beyond 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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Quorn. The Catholic Church with porch and statue. Built in 1883.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the underground bakery built in 1885 are two stone chimneys.
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Quorn South Australia. This Dutch gable adorns the old English Scottish and Australian bank which was built in 1881. It is now a fine little cafe. The louvred veranda is a more recent addition.
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Leigh Creek. The Port Augusta to Leigh Creek coalfields railway. A bridge over Windy Creek which only flows after heavy rains. This new line and bridge was built in 1957. The original trian line was built in 1882.
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Parachilna Gorge in the South Australian Flinders Ranges. Creek bed, gum trees and rocky terrain.
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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This was the galvanised iron Methodist Church from around 1874. It closed around 1943 and became the libary. Now it is the information centre with new external cladding.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Details of the Cradock Catholic Church built in 1883. The town established 1878 for wheat growing in semi desert land. Town soon deserted. Now almost a ghost town.
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Quorn. The Ghan Express on the Pichi RIchi railway being hauled by a steame engine between Quorn to Port Augusta.
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Mambray Creek galvanised iron hall. It was open by 1906.
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Hawker South Australia in the Flinders Ranges. The town War Memorial and Walk near dawn.
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