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Mundoora. Site of the old Mundoorah state school which operated from 1878 to 1943.
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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. New Years Eve fireworks..
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Burra. Red Banks Conservation Park where prehistoric mega fauna bones and fossils have been discovered. The mega fauna died out about 45,000 years ago. Baldina Creek flows through the park.
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of Morphetts winding house. Built in 1861. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. It is next to Morphetts engine house which had a huge Cornish beam engine.
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Green Mallee, Eucalyptus viridis
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Dutton near Truro. The buttressed wall of the Dutton blacksmith shop. It was built in 1875 by Carl Schmidt one of the German settlers of the town. His descendants ran the business into the 1940s.
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa fallen flower cap
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Square-Fruited Mallee flower buds
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Mallee Fringe Lily base
by John Tann

Borrika near Karoonda. On the left is the 1915 tin public hall and on the right is the limestone Soldiers Memorial Hall which opened in 1925.
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Karoonda South Australia. Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran with beautiful sheep dog, ram and sheep, railway station and wedged tail eagle all representative of the district. .
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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. The River Murray..
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. St Johannes Lutheran Church built in 1923. It was 1959 before all servcies were held in English. Now a private residence.
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Coonalpyn. South Australia. In the former Ninety Mile Desert area of South Australia. Evocative images of local school children painted on the wheat silos.
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Temognatha chalcodera - Jewel beetle
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Taplan. The old former general store near the railway. Now the unofficial Post Office. .
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Elliston. Eyre Peninsula. Limestone overhang at the cliff top lookout.
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Eudunda. Advertising on the old water tower needed for the steam engines. Frys Cocoa and Burfords Candles and Soap. Next to the Viterra grain silos. The railway closed many years ago and has been vandalised.
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Burra. This copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. Cornish miners built these magnificent stone structures. This is Morphetts winding house built in 1861 next to Morphetts engine house built in 1858.
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Burra copper mine 1845 to 1877. Most miners were Cornish but some were Welsh. A Welsh square ventilation chimney.
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Galga South Australia. The galvanised iron Post Office opened in 1915 and closed in 1982. It was run in conjunction with the town general store. JPG
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Karoonda South Australia. Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran with wedge tail eagle, sheep dog, ram and sheep, and this detail of railway station all representative of the district. Detail. of sheep dog and ram. . .
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Active Mallee Fowl nest
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Bute Yorke Peninsula. The Bute Railway Station Platform. All the station buildings are gone. The railway from the port of Wallaroo reached here in 1878.
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Coonalpyn. The RSL Hall which was the original town Institute. Built in 1906. Closed 1953 and sold 1954 to the Returned Soldiers League.Once used for church services too
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Inneston. Gypsum mining ghost town 1913 to 1930 in the Innes National Park. A miners limestone cottage now available to holiday lets.
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Wunkar. In the Murray Mallee. The only small town on teh Wanbi to Yinkanie railway line which was laid in 1925. Closed in 1971. A Littlehampton brick kiln brick house.
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Sedan. Old ruin of a pug and native pine cottage from 1870s. Native pine, Callistris species, is white ant resistant.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine house and winding house. Built in 1858. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. Morphetts engine house had a huge Cornish engine. Partly burnt out in 1925 and restored in 1986.
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Morgan on the River Murray. The Landseers warehouse supplied good for the paddle steamers that went up the Darling River to outback NSW from 1878 to 1931..
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Cowangie. The old ovens in the bakery which operated from 1912 to 1952. These ovens probably built by the Metters factory in Adelaide.
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Angaston. The once gracious Lindsay Park House. Architect Henry Evans. Built 1851 for George Fife Angas. Side additions date from around 1900.
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Burra. Copper miners dug rooms into the bank of Burra Creek in the late 1840s and early 1850s as homes for their families. Some still remain.
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Waikerie on the River Murray. Silo art on the grain silos painted by Garry Duncan. An impressionistic view of the natural environment of the River Murray.
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Karoonda. Pioneer Park with railway and Mallee farming structures and items. Karoonda store.
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Mantung. The wood stove and kitchen area of the Mantung Hall. It was in usage from 1921 although no ceiling in it until 1924.
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Rugged coastline south of Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula South Australia.Near Point Labatt.
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Galga. In the Murray Mallee. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church. Foundation stone laid 1923 and church opened 1924. Now a private residence.
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Mount Bryan. The iconic ruin near Mount Bryan and north of Burra. Used on a Midnight Oil album cover. Columbia Records released it in 1987. Diesel and Dust. Beautiful sensuous hills of the mid north pastoral country of South Australia.
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Green Mallee, Eucalyptus viridis
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. The art work comes from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly.
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Coonalpyn. The silo art on the Viterra grain silos with the 1919 built Congregational Church on the right.
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Paruna in the Murray Mallee of South Australia. Established 1912. This government bore and water supply was opened in 1913.
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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 colouful owl.
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Galga. Home of the Girl from Galga Julie Anthony. The hall used as a public hall, a state school, a Congregational Church and later a Catholic Church. Built in 1921.
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Marama on the old Peebinga railway line. Timber hall built in 1918. This stone one built in 1930. Both halls were used as the Marama School from 1914 to school closure in 1967.
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Bowhill. The former stone school. The first school on this site was tin and iron and opened in 1895. This school was built in 1903. It clsoed in 1942. Now a private residence
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Karoonda South Australia. Silo Art by Heesco Khosnaran with wedge tail eagle, sheep dog, ram and railway station all representative of the district. At night monthly changing illumination art projected onto central unpainted part..
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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 lioness...
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Claypans near Copeville in the South Australian Murray Mallee. Cairn to commemorate the old Methodist church and government school.
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Tailem Bend.On the River Murray. Old railway town. The Catholic church. Built in 1924.
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Burra. Copper miners dug rooms into the bank of Burra Creek in the late 1840s as homes for their families. Some still remain. This one with a stone entrance.
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Angaston. The gracious Lindsay Park House. Architect Henry Evans. Built 1851 for George Fife Angas. Side additions date from around 1900.
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Sedan. Johann Pfeiffer's cottage and wheat store built around 1875. Town established 1875.
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Alawoona in the Murray Mallee. The former Bethlehem Lutheran Church built in local limestone 1934. Closed in the 1990s.
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Cobdogla. Vines and trees seen from the Cobdogla to Loveday railway line. The line opened in 1921 and closed in the 1960s.
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Waikerie on the River Murray. Silo art of a great blue yabby by Jimmy Dvate.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts 3 engine house and winding house. Built in 1858. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. Morphetts engine house had a huge Cornish engine. Partly burnt out in 1925 and restored in 1986.
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Barmera. Nearby is the Cobdogla steam and pump museum. Right on the banks of the River Murray. Engineering Art. A steam expansion loop pipe.
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DSC_2617 flower buds of silver mallee (Eucalyptus crucis subsp. crucis)
by JohnJennings995