mallee

Lowaldie. Plaque memorial to the pioneering families of Lowaldie.
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Eucalyptus sieberi base of mallee
by John Tann

Burra. Copper mining town from 1845 to 1870. Quaint old restored stone miners cottage from the 1850s.
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Borrika in the Murray Mallee. The old government school with the flag pole. Built in 1927 and closed in 1941.The first school opened in Borrika in 1915.
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Barabba on the Adelaide Plains. The cemetery is surrounded by Mallee scrub which was burnt in a bushfire in 2015. Headstones include Fidge family.
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Barmera. In the Information Centre a model of one small part of the Loveday Prisoner of War or Internment Camp. It operated during World War Two mainly for Japanese and Italian prisoners of war.
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Galga. Beautiful foundation stone laid for St Pauls Lutheran Church.
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Cowangie. The old ovens from the early bakery. These ovens were in use from 1912 to 1952. Now in a little park.
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Lascelles Victoria. Detail of the finely depicted local farmer on the town's silo art.
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Denial Bay. The stone ruins of William McKenzie's homestead and one of his many stone wells. He was the pioneer settler of the district. .
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Streaky Bay. Water in the waterhole where explorer Edward John Eyre camped in 1840. Eyre Peninsula has no lakes or rivers so water was crucial to their survival.
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Loxton in the Riverland. The old newspaper printing offices.
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Petrol Pump, Wheatons Service Station, Mallee Highway
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Cowangie Soldiers Memorial Hall built in 1924. It replaced a tin and iron institute built in 1913.
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Curramulka. The former Bank of Adelaide. Built in 1935 with a striking and simple Art Deco style. Note pink ganite foundation stones.
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Patchewollock. Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church. Built in 1957.
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Manangatang. St Patricks Catholic Church built in this Upper Wimmera town in 1925.
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Lameroo Methodist Church now Uniting Church in the Murray Mallee district of South Australia.
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Blue Mallee, E. polybracta
by Leaf by Leaf

Berriwillock Post Office
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Coomandook. The Congregational Church built in 1970 but named the United Church because Ki Ki church amalgamated with it. In 1977 it became the Uniting Church. The hall was added in 1986.
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Psittaculidae - Barnardius - Mallee Ringneck / Australian Ringneck
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Waikerie. Silo art on old grain silos depicting River Murray life - bull rushes, Murray Hardyhead fish and a blue Yabby related to lobsters.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Redwing Farm homestead. Built in 1906. The farm established around 1875.
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Ngarkat Conservation. Border sign. Pertendi Track to the Victorian border.
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Borrika SChool. First school began in tin hall in 1915. This MT Gambier stone school opened in 1927 and closed in 1941. used as Methodist Church until 1947 then became a residence.
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Mount Bryan East. Paddocks seen from the Mt Bryan East School yard.
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. A windmill...
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. The Methodists bought the 1884 tin Baptist church in 1887 which they used till this stone Methodist Church was built in 1906.The rear vestry was added in 1922 and the hall in 1954.
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Peebinga. It local Aboriginal language means a place of pine trees. These Australian pines are Callitris preissii species. Located at Butchers Soak or waterhole.
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Eucalyptus synandra
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Bute. On northern Yorke Peninsula. The former Catholic Church built in 1894.
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Peterborough. A few kms to the west is this memorial to Goyders Line where it crosses the plains. Behind is the Crystal Brook to Sydney railway line.
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Sedan. Vernacular building techniques pug and native pine uprights.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. Pretty fluffy Australian native plant flowering in Spring.
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Top of the Yellow-top mallee ash
by John Tann

Dolphin fin( not a shark) at Streaky Bay in the morning. Eyre Peninsula.
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CWA - Country Womens' Association Hall Lameroo, South Australia. Originally the Yappara South School from 1917 to 1943.
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Blanchetown. List of hotel licensees since 1858.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. South Australia. Pretty fluffy Australian native plant flowering in Spring.
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. Pelicans ..
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Barmera. The Lutheran Church which opened in 1956. Claret Ash street trees with autumn colour.
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Cambrai. The Mallee farming museum in the old Lutheran Church. This church was built as St Johns Lutheran in 1911 and closed in 1968. Became a museum in 1971.
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Hives in White Mallee 1sep1993
by Gawler History

Patchewollock. The first school opened in 1920. This fine stone school was built in 1927. This town is the start of the Victorian Silo Art Trail. The town was covered in smoke from bushfires 100s of kms away.
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Taplan on the Adelaide to Renmark railway. The first Institute was built in 1917. This fine stone Institute was completed in 1924.
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Hopetoun Victoria. The former Anglican Church built in 1907. Now a residence and partially hidden behind a hedge.
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Tintinara. Interior of the original 16 bay shearing shed of the Tintinara sheep station wool shed built in 1865.
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Loxton. The Loxton Hotel. It was established in 1908. This building appears to date from around 1920.
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Tintinara. On the historic Tintinara sheep station the lone grave of property founder William Harding.
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Loxton. This small town of a few hundred settlers built this grandiose Lutheran Church in 1926. In sits in front of the original 1904 Lutheran Church. St Petri.
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DSC_2618 foliage of silver mallee (Eucalyptus crucis subsp. crucis)
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Lock. Eyre Peninsula. Advertising on buildings. Farmers Union of South Australia had a wheat buyer in Lock for many decades. Their old logo on a store which is now an opportunity or charity shop. .
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Mercunda. State school site plaque. It was held in Mercunda Hall. Mercunda was located on the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line which opened in 1915.
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Galga in the Murray Mallee. The railway reached here in 1914.These silos were built 1963. Silo art funded by a local farming couple. WW2 Sister Vivian Bullwinkel depicted. Sole survivor of Japanese massacre.
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Peake. The first school in Peake opened in 1910. It moved to the Institute in 1913 then this new school room in 1929. Closed in 1964.
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Hives in White Mallee 1sep1993
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Karoonda. At the Karoonda Farm Fair a Husband and Wife sheep shearing machine. Invented by Frank Wolseley. The wife turns the handle to generate the power whilst her husband shears the sheep.
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Hives in White Mallee 16aug2000
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Burra. Red Banks Conservation Park where prehistoric mega fauna bones and fossils have been discovered. The giant fauna died out about 45,000 years ago. Baldina Creek flows through the park.
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