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Port Lincoln. The rare and unusual Starfish Iris or Sea Spider flower near Mikkira homestead south of Port Lincoln. Its botanical name is Ferraria crispa from Cape Province South Africa. It is a member of the iridaceae family.
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Darke Peak. An Eyre Peninsula grain town. The War Memorial Hall was built in 1958.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is the original compass of f the Iron Monarch built here by BHP in 1973. 179 metres long and over 19,500 tons.
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Australian native pigface near Streaky Bay Eyre Peninsula.
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DSC_4088 Tate's grasstree (Xanthorrhoea semiplana subsp. tateana), Flinders Highway, south-east of Coomunga, South Australia
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Yaninee Institute. Local limestone structure opened in 1925 . On Eyre Peninsula near Minnipa. Town established 1918. First timber hall built 1918. Had a school 1918 to 1945.
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Chandada on Eyre Peninsula. The well cared for Catholic church. Fund raising began 1949. The church was built in 1954.
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Poochera Eyre Peninsula. A well restored bakers overn from the town's old bakery. Metters oven were manufactured in Adelaide.
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Bare, Dry Hills
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Pildappa Rock near Minnipa Eyre Peninsula
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Cowell. The foundation stone of the old institute building erected in 1892 in limestone. A new grand facade and Institute was built in 1912.
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Lake Hamilton near Port Lincoln. The Lake Hamilton Eating House from the 1850s. An informal inn or resting house for travellers. Used until the 1880s.
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Streaky Bay. St Canutes Catholic Church. It opened in 1912 with the first priest stationed there from 1914.
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Elliston. the 1880 Police Station which is now a private home.
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Rusty Valve
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Powerhouse Museum
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Coffin Bay. Major oyster producer. Oysters are collected five times during their life span to grade them according to size and then they are returned to different oyster beds ready for harvesting. Tractor taking boat to grading factory..
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Elliston. The Anglican Rectory next to the church. It was built in 1929 and opened by the Bishop of Willochra.
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Kimba. The former Anglican Church built in 1925. Closed 1990 and sold as a residence in 1992. Now quite updated and transformed
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Tumby Bay. St Leos Catholic Church built in 1917.
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Port Lincoln. The Railway Station. Built in 1927 to replace the 1907 wooden railway station. All Eyre Peninsula lines start in Port Lincoln. Now a railway museum.
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Wangary and Mount Dutton Bay Anglican Church. Its foundation stone was laid in 1900.
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Minnipa Eyre Peninsula. One of several good stone railway workers cottages beside the railway line. Built after the arrival of Commmissioner Webb from the the USA in 1924.
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Streaky Bay. The limestone landscape of Eyre Peninsula means no rivers. Explorer Edward John Eyre camped at this waterhole in 1840 when he was exploring Eyre Peninsula. It still has water in it.
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Poonindie Aboriginal Mission near Port Lincoln. Mission established 1850 the church cum school room built 1854 1855. It is now St Matthews Anglican Church since 1896 when the mission closed.
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Kimba. The first Methodist church was built on this site in 1923. It was replaced with this modern Uniting Church in 1978.
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Darke Peak on Eyre peninsula. The orginal timber framed school opened in 1917. The stone building was erected in 1933. The school closed in 1938. The old wooden classroom was probably the original 1917 school room.
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Kimba. In the town museum village. A typical South Australian government One Teacher School from the 1930s and 1940s. Many one teacher schools closed after World War Two.
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Streaky Bay Uniting Church
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Colton. St Lukes Anglican Church built in 1905. Closed except for special services these days.
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Port Lincoln. The government built resident for the Eyre Peninsula Resident or chief government official. Ravendale House was built in 1857 and sold to a private owner by 1875. Now a Veterinary Clinic. Robe also had a Residency in South Australia.
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Streaky Bay. The interior of St Canutes Catholic Church built in 1912.
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Wet Dirt
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Port Lincoln. The government built resident for the Eyre Peninsula Resident or chief government official. Ravendale House was built in 1857 and sold to a private owner by 1875. Now a Veterinary Clinic. Robe also had a Residency in South Australia.
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Yaninee. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church. Opened in 1952 by Reverend Kloeden. Town established 1918. Had a school from 1918 to 1945.
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Penong. Australia's biggest windmill in the Penong windmill museum. It is 35 feet high and was originally on a sheep station near Kingoonya. Only 15 were ever built and only 2 are outside of QLD.
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Wudinna. The original state school built in 1927. The town school began in the institute building in 1919.
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Port Lincoln. Giant aloes with the stone fireplace of an old shepherds room near the former shearing shed of Mikkira station.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum a good collection of old telephones. . .
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Port Lincoln. The Railway Station. Built in 1927 to replace the 1907 wooden railway station. All Eyre Peninsula lines start in Port Lincoln. Now a railway museum.
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Calca near Baird Bay and Point Labatt. Memorial cairn to the district buildings.
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Port Lincoln. The expansive state primary school. Built around 1880 but now hard to see as other buildings have been erected in front of it. .
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Cowell. The Post Office on Franklin Harbour.
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Lock. The railway station and office. Opened in 1937. Closed in 1980. Now in the town museum.
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Port Lincoln. The state Kirton Point Primary School built around 1950.
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Colton. The old Catholic cemetery with an information board about the first Greek immigant to South Australia George Tramountanas who arrived 1842. Anglicised his name to North.
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The Approach
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Port Lincoln. The rear of the state primary school built around 1880.
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Tumby Bay. Old advertising on a shop wall for laudromat hair salon and plumbing. An odd mixture for one shop premise.
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Poonindie Aborginal Mission building ruins near Port Lincoln. Buildings date from the early 1850s.
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Tumby Bay. Government vandalism. Ugly modern additions to the 1908 heritage Police Station.
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Colton on Eyre Peninsula. The state primary school built in 1885 and closed as a school in 1956. Now a residence but with the old roof air vents still in operation.
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Port Lincoln to Ceduna Kimba Buckleboo train services 1938.
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Tumby Bay Eyre Peninsula. A memorial to the pioneers of the district erected in 1978.
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Lake Hamilton on Eyre Peninsula. A lone headstone to several pioneers in a lonely windswept landscape.
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Cowell. The old state school buildings. Built as a primary school now an area school.
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Wirrulla. School memorial plaque on a huge limestone boulder.
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Fowlers Bay. Great Southern Right Whale and white calf lolling in the bay.
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Cowell. The original Post Office and Post Masters residence. Now the town museum.
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Flattened Tree
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