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Orroroo Railway Station and the silos behind. Now a private house. The railway line from Peterborough and Adelaide reached Orroroo in 1881 as it was pushed northwards to Quorn to link to Port Augusta and eventually Perth from 1917.
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Gordon on the Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the ghost town of Gordon are a few marble headstones in the cemetery. The last burial was in 1969..
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Moockra. All the remains of the wooden railway station platform with old wooden train carriage. Peterborough to Quorn railway reached Moochera in 1881.
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Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. The old original Wilpena Chalet building with modern additions.
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Kanyaka Cemetery near Quorn, Flinders Ranges South Australia
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Kanyaka Homestead near Quorn, Flinders Ranges South Australia
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Stone buildingsof Kanyaka Station.Leasehold taken 1851. Resumed by govt 1881. Opwners walked off and left station. Nothing has happened there since. Between Quorn and Hawker in Flinders Ranges.
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Flinders Ranges. A view of Wilpena Pound from Huck's Lookout. A popular painting spot for Sir Hans Heysen.
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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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Moockra. All the remains of the wooden railway station platform with old wooden train carriage.
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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 et.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. View from Huck's lookout towards Wilpena Pound.
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Arden Vale. Near Quorn. The first government school here opened in 1882. This stone school room for the govt. was built in 1906 by the Schumann family. It closed in 1959. Now a private home.
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Orroroo. The old 1880s Police Station and some pretty tulips flowering in September in this town beyond Goyder's Line. The frosty spring nights are ideal for tulips.
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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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Flinders Ranges. The Arkaba Ranges after spring rains.
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Ikara Flinders National Park. Wilpena Creek carved a deep gorge providing the only entry exit from the flat centre of the Pound. The Pound is a natural ampitheatre surrounded by high mountains.
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Gordon ghost town on the Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. Established 1879. A ghost town by the 1930s. A persistent galvanised water tank survives and little else..
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Ikara Flinders Ranges National Park. The old homestead in the middle of this natuual amphitheatre which was used for grazing and even growing wheat. Recently restored.
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Medindie Adelaide. The Myrtles. Surveyor General George Goyder built a cottage here in 1856 which he enlarged to a grand single storey house in 1866. He sold it in 1883 when new owners added an upper floor.
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Medindie. George Goyder built a cottage on his 30 acres here in 1856 which he enlarged to a grand house in 1866. He sold it in 1883 and new owners added an upper floor.
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Gordon a ghost town on the Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. Rubble and ruin. Town established 1879. A ghost town by the 1930s.
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Flinders Ranges SA. Rocky outcrop near the Aborginal art caves at Yourambulla near Hawker. The Flinders were ancestral lands of the Adnyamathanha people..
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Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. The trunk of the Cazneaux tree. A River Red Gum. On a wet and rainy day.
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Orroroo. Old pear trees from the original Pekina Run established 1844.
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Aboriginal cave art at Yourambulla Aboriginal Caves in the Flinders Ranges South Australia.
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Arden Vale near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. The lone Scottish headstone of Hugh Proby of Kanyaka sheep Station. Founded by Proby 1851. He downed 1852. He was son of the Earl of Carysfort.
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Orroroo. St Pauls Anglican Church built in 1920. Opened by the Anglican Bishop of Willochra.A mix of gothic and California Bungalow in style.
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Old General store in Carrieton South Australia. Town founded 1877. This store about 1879. Carrieton is beyond Goyders line for cereal growing but wheat farmers came here in 1877.
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Coonatto Station. Old ruins of a workers cottage on Coonatto Station near the ghost town of Hammond. Station founded about 1849. Subdivided for farming lands around 1877.
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Flinders Ranges. Beltana. People outside the Presbyterian Manse and the Smith of Dunesk Misson church.1919. State Libary photo. B61970 .
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Kanyaka. Flinders Ranges. Headstone in the old Kanyaka sheep station cemetery. Martha Phillips died in 1857 in this harsh outback country.
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Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. 1930 view. State Library photo.B 6102014
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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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Gordon ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. All that remains in the main street is some rubble. Town established in 1879. Last resident left 1957. Businesses closed by 1930s.
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Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. Magnificent River Red Gums and old cottages. 1950. State Library photo. B6102019
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Orroroo. The former Bank of South Australia. Built in the 1930s. Closed a few years ago. Now a private residence.
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Orroroo. The old SA Farmers Union Butter Factory. Built 1921. Closed 1970s. First butter factory in Orroroo was in 1907 the Walloway Butter Factory.
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Kanyaka. Flinders Ranges. Headstone in the old Kanyaka sheep station cemetery. Charles Hammond died in 1875 in this harsh outback country.
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Ikara Flinders National Park. Information board about the old stone cottage in the middle of Wilpena Pound which is an ampitheatre surrounded by high peaks. The cottage was bult around 1905.
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Flinders Ranges. The Arkaba Ranges.
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Orroroo. The entrance to the former Bank of South Australia. Built in the 1930s. Closed a few years ago.
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Coonatto Station near Hammond. Run by Grant brothers in 1860s when this bluestone Anglican Church and school room was built. Consecrated by Bishop Short of Adelaide probably in 1868.
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Kanyaka Station. Leasehold taken up around 1851. Govt. resumed land in 1881 for wheat farmers. Leasehold walked off and left Kanyaka Station. Wheat farmers failed and walked off too. Govt failure again.
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Coonatto Station taken over by Grant brothers 1852. Homestead sited by this rocky outcrop and permanent waterhole in Coonatto Creek. Stone ruins on other side of creek.
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St Raphaels Catholic Church in Carrieton South Australia. Erected 1889. Large Presbytry built too. Town population declining by 1889 as the rain did not continue and wheat farmers were struggling. Most left the land.
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Orroroo. Originally built in the 1880s as a Bible Christian Methodist Church. Probably closed in 1900 as a church. New facade added. Now the Orroroo Senior Citizens Club. Romanesque rounded church windows.
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Orroroo Institute. Designed by Adelaide architect Daniel Garlick in 1880. A soldiers memorial facade was added in 1924.
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Orrorroo. The classical revival Methodist Sunday School built in 1934 of local reddish iron stone. An unsual building for Orrorroo.
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Arden Vale near Quorn in the FLinders Ranges. The story of Hugh Proby of Kanyaka sheep Station. Founded by Proby 1851. He downed 1852. He was son of the Earl of Carysfort.
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Kanyaka Station near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges.Established early 1850s as leashold run. Huge complex of stone buildings. Govt. reduced square mileage and leaseholder walked off station and 1881. Has been a ruin ever since.
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Carrieton Railway station in South Australia. This was on the 1880 connector line from Peterborough to Quorn. Thus Carrieton was on the main line to Perth until 1936.
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Orroroo school. It opened in 1880. Became a Higher Primary sChool in 1916 and an Area School in 1962.
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Arden Vale. In the Flinders Ranges. The stone cairn memorialising 100 years of farming settlment here by Martin Eckert and his descendants. was built in 1978.
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Orroroo. Stone remains of walls from the original Pekina homestead established 1846. Resumed by the government in 1871.
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Old hay cart at Carrieton South Australia. Carrieton settled 1877 for wheat farmers but beyond Goyder's Line. Good years stopped and farmers walked off the land.
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Carrieton. The old state school with massive roof air ventilators was built in 1882. Now the office and residence of the caravan park.
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Yanyarrie Whim or stone tank 1853 on the outskirts of Carrieton South Australia.Carrieton established 1877 beyond Goyder s Line.
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