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Gordon ghost town of the Flinders Ranges on the Willochra Plains. The remains of an underground water tank behind rubble ruins in the main street. Town began 1879. Last resident left 1957. Most gone by 1930.
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Milang. On Lake Alexandrina. Bottoms up and heads down. Pelicans fishing in the lake for lunch.
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Mt Gambier Club opened in 1904 as offices for lease. Club there since 1913
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Mt Gambier Christ Church Anglican Hall. Original hall 1915 this one a reconstruction built in 1951. The original hall burnt down.
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Belair. Australian magpie on the edge of the lake in Belair National Park.
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Wellington. Built for Commercial Bank of Sydney around 1910, now Stock Agent since 1985. On laneway with chamfered corners, recessed entrance with columns on each side, curved masonry balustrade on balcony.
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Wirrabara. The fine old foot pump bellows church organ in the Catholic Church. The church was consecrated in 1934.
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Marree. The War Memorial Park with date palms.
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Bay Road home of the founder of the Border Watch newspaper in Mt Gambier.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Silhoutted emus on a ridge near Hawker.
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Former Congregational Church in Port Pirie. Now a Barnacle Bill restaurant. opened in 1879.
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Marree in the Outback of South Australia. The Main Street with the hotel and post office in it.
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O’SHAUGHNESSY BRIDGE IN GALWAY [ACROSS THE EGLINGTON CANAL - GAOL RIVER]
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Naracoorte. One of the buildings at Naracoorte House. They date from the 1845ish George Ormerod stone cottage to this two story part Gothic style house erected in 1859 by William MacIntosh..
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Clare. Bungaree Station. Naturalized South African Sparaxis bulbs flowering near the Bungaree Station Anglican Church.
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Marree. The rear of Marree Railway Station.
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Kapunda. The former convent built in 1892 for the Domenican Sisters who ran the Catholic School. It has been a private residence for decades and was formerly owned by convicted paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy.
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Wirrabara. As the sign says a Fairmont Model ST2 railway ganger's maintenance car. Used on the line to Wilmington until around 1989.
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Atlas Centaur 7 Details: Night Shot of AC 7/Surveyor Date: 09/20/1966
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives

Mylor. Veranda and front entrance of Warrakilla House. Designed by Daniel Garlick for SA Surveyor General George Goyder in 1883. Goyder died here.
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Surveyor General's Sketch books. Cumberland County Botany Parish Stubbs selection of 100 acres
by MHNSW - State Archives Collection

Marree. The Marree Hotel was built in 1882 expecting the Great Northern Railway to reach the town in 1884.
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Marree in the Outback of South Australia. The two storey hotel was built in 1882.
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Bordertown. Galvanised iron and clap board old store in the Main Street of Bordertown.
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Marree. The school began in a church here in 1885. This school was built in 1908 and is still in use.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Cloud covered ranges on the outskirts of the town.
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Watervale. Stone house near the entrance gates to Hughes Park estate. Hughes Park owned by Sir Walter Watson Hughes from 1861. Now owned by the Duncan family.
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Marree. South of the town a disused railway culvert filled with rain after heavy spring rains 2020.
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Port Fairy. Talara House. A beautiful Gothic Tudor house with fancy barge boards on the gable ends. Built 1855. Now accommodation for tourists.
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Portland. Basalt cottage built for the Governor of the Gaol 1872 with white Iceberg roses along the fence.
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Marree. The disused Oodnadatta and Alice Springs railway line heading north from Marree. The line to Alice Springs opened in 1929 and closed in 1980. Beside the tracks is a temporary lake after heavy spring rains.
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Tortola House Gawler built for timber merchant William Wincey. Later purchased by Alfred May of May Brothers Foundry. Next in 1912 purchased by the Methodist Church for the manse of Tod Street Methodist Church. Gawler, South Australia was founded 1839.
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Arthurs Pass Store
by Jocey K

Peterborough Town Hall. Now a private house.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes tanks were built in stone in 1865 to hold water pumped from the Hughes Shaft by the Hughes Enginehouse.
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Swan Hill. This Presbyterian Church was built in 1913. The first church built in 1872 and moved to this site. The hall behind the church was built in 1955.
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Lancelot ghost town in South Australia. The long ruined corridor in the hotel. Nine rooms lead off this corridor.
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Stansbury. Yorke Peninsula. Recently completed Water Tower Art. Detail of a male blue swimmer crab, a local oyster and a ketch in Oyster Bay.. The district was first known as Oyster Bay.
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Kapunda. The Returned Services League Hall or War Memorial Hall in Kapunda.
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Forbes. Old gold mining town. A former bank is now a Stock and Station Agents.
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Hollow Sycamore, Heritage Tree Surveyor Course
by Tim Sheerman-Chase

Booleroo Centre. The bakery once an old general store.
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Millswood. Adelaide. Coonawarra Front entrance with small tower over porch. Built 1897 for explorer David Lindsay.
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Werribee. Dining room sideboard and Australian cedar doors in Werribee Park mansion built in 1875 for the Chirnside brothers.
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Wellington. The gaol. Some of this was built in 1863 and some in 1878. The adminstration offices.
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Inman Valley. Built to last. Stone ruins of the Sheoak Hill or Inman valley or Bald Hills Congregational Church and cemetery. 1856 to 1901. Church furnishings removed in 1919. Sheoak tree grows in the former nave. ..
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Carrieton. The old Institute built around 1890 with a new facade added in 1919 with a Federal government Peace Loan in 1919.
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Swan Hill. The Gem paddle steamer with reflections in a dock near the River Murray.
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Nimbin. Hippy capital of Australia. The wooden Gothic Methodist Church. Built in 1913.
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Adelaide. Thebarton Police and Mounted Police Barracks. Built in 1916. Soon to be demolished. Currently the Police Museum. Diagram of international work by SA Police display. .
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Virginia Creeper over the Anglican chapel on Gostwyck Station near Uralla New South Wales. Chapel built in 1922.
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Invercargill. Classial style commercial building in Esk Street. Built between 1890 and 1910.
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Forbes. The Presbyterian Church near Victoria Square. Built in 1877.
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New Residence on the Murray. A communistic Village Settlement 1896 to 1897. German settlers arrived in 1901 and built this Lutheran school and church in 1905. A new foundation stone was inserted in 2000.
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General ??? : 101 : Surveyor
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives

Mylor. Warrakilla House 1883. Collection of family photogpaphs of George Goyder and his family.
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Stansbury Yorke Peninsula. The Anglicans built a timber framed church in 1878. This stone church opened in 1898.
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Mylor. Magnificent Italianate doorway entrance to Warrakilla House built for Surveyor General George Goyder in 1883. Note glass painting on frame above the door.
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Hummocks Station near the Hummock Ranges. Old outbuilding erected around 1858 with local red ironstone rocks.
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Nimbin. The 1970s hippy capital of Australia. The War Memorial and colourful stores across the street. . .
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