flindersranges

Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The entrance to Beltana sheep station. Owned by Sir Thomas Elder in the 1860s. Run by Beltana Pastoral Company from the 1890s.
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Angorichina in the Flinders Ranges. This village complex was built as a TB sanitorium for soldiers returning from World War One. Opened 1927. A rusty old shed from the early years.
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Quorn. Landscape near Quorn taken from the Ghan Express tourist train going through the Pichi Richi Pass.
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Farina in the Flinders Ranges. The historic cemetery of this now ghost town.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Silhoutted emus on a ridge near Hawker.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. A small outback town only needs a small railway station. The railway reached here in 1882.
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In the Flinders Ranges. Burnt out grass trees reshooting after a bush fire. Botanically known as Xanthorrhoea. .
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Copley in the Flinders Ranges. Two old rusty trucks and two interested donkeys.
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Leigh Creek in the Flinders Ranges. This town was purpose built by ETSA for the coal miners in 1982. The Area School has few pupils left today as the mines closed five years ago.
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Blinman old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. This old sandstone Police Station with the cells behind was built in 1874. Long since closed as a police station.
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LR3 HSE Discovery 2007
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Hawker inthe Flinders Ranges. Salvation Jane or also known as Patersons Curse is a noxious weed but very pretty when covering acres of land. It is a type of Echium.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway reached here in 1882. This massive blue stone station was built around that time. Closed as a railway station in 1980..
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Commodore near Parachilna. Old large railway barracks and railway station south of Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here in 1882. It closed in 2017.
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Farina ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. The railway fettlers house. Built around 1890. Fine bluestone with circular air vents in the end gables.
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Wilpena Pound. Near the Pound is the old shearing shed of Rawnsley Park sheep station.
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Wilson cemetery between Hawker and Quorn. Town founded 1881 for wheat farmers. Beyond Goyders Line and farming failed. Hopes broken. Government folly. So sad.Such a harsh environment.
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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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Commodore near Parachilna. Old railway barracks and station south of Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The Great Northern Railway to Farina reached here in 1882. It closed in 2017.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. View from Huck's lookout towards Wilpena Pound.
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Wilpena Pound behind the Cazneaux tree made famous by an Australian photographer.
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Angorichina in the Flinders Ranges. In 1927 a WW1 soldiers' tuberculosis sanitorium opened here. It closed in 1973. Restored cabins are now used for tourist accommodation.
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Copley in the Flinders Ranges. Pretty violet coloured and shaped little flowers among the rocks beside the old coal mines retention dam.
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Blinman old copper mining town of the Flinders Rangns. This standstone police officer's house was built around 1874 when the Police Station was built by the government. Now a private residence.
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Copley. Panorama of the small Outback town of Copley near the former Leigh Creek brown coalfields. In the background is part of the Frome Ranges a part of the Flinders Ranges.
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Flinders Ranges
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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. Large copper scultpure near the town information centre.
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Quorn. Old steam engine used on the Pichi Richi railway steaming into the railway station.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. The northern view from St Marys Peak on the edge of Wilpena Pound. Part of the 45 metre panorama of Wilpena Pound a natural amphitheatre. Painted by Jeff Morgan in the Morgan Art Gallery.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The interior of the Smith of Dunesk Presbyterian Church built in 1893. Seek ye the Lord whilst He may be Found. Closed 1932.
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Farina. Ghost town north of the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the Exchange Hotel built in the 1880s.
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Looking across the top of Spencers Gulf Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges.
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Hawker. Flinders Ranges. Old galvanised iron fronterd general store.
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Melrose. The old flourmill which became Jacka Brothers brewery. Mill built 1878. Brewery ran 1893 to 1934.
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train going around a sharp curve beside the road. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges through Pichi Richi Pass. This Great Northern Line was built in 1878.
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Lyndhurst in the Flinders Ranges. White ochre deposits beside the amazing orange and red deposits. Ochre was used by Aboriginal people for art, body painting for corroborrees etc.
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Farina ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. Ruins of the Guard's House at the railway station. It and the goods shed havegone. Built around 1885 as the railway reached here 1882. The railway water tank is beyond it.
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Beyond Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train excursion going around a sharp curve. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges through Pichi Richi Pass. This Great Northern Line was built in 1878.
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Quorn railway yards now operated by Pichi Richi heritage railway society. Old water tank with Amgourie tea advertisement and some old rolling stock.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Ancient multi celled World Heritage Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel. Worth seeing.
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Farina ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. View from the ruins of the stone Exchange Hotel which had the general store next Hotel. Built 1879. Being covered in sand in 1936 and closed 1937.. .
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Quorn. The Catholic Church with porch and statue. Built in 1883.
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Nelshaby and the Southern Flinders Ranges. JPG
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the underground bakery built in 1885 are two stone chimneys.
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Leigh Creek. The Port Augusta to Leigh Creek coalfields railway. A bridge over Windy Creek which only flows after heavy rains. This new line and bridge was built in 1957. The original trian line was built in 1882.
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Quorn South Australia. This Dutch gable adorns the old English Scottish and Australian bank which was built in 1881. It is now a fine little cafe. The louvred veranda is a more recent addition.
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Group Language Tour
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Wilmington South Australia. The bright purple noxious weed Salvation Jane from the Echium family growing in a paddock.
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Parachilna Gorge in the South Australian Flinders Ranges. Creek bed, gum trees and rocky terrain.
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Mambray Creek galvanised iron hall. It was open by 1906.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. North Arkaba state school opened in a pug and pine Primitive Methodist Church in 1879. This fine stone school room opened in 1888. North Arkaba School closed in 1944.
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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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Flinders Ranges. Beltana stone school room from the rear and school teachers house. 1900. State Library photo. B64278
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Hawker South Australia in the Flinders Ranges. The town War Memorial and Walk near dawn.
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Blinman old copper mining town in the Flinders Ranges. St Marks Anglican Church opened in 1966. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Fargher.
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Blinman and old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. Here is some overburden from the old 1862 copper mine and the mine entrance on the left.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. A pug and pine cottage with three stone chimneys. Built in the 1870s. Now fully restored.
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Cradock South Australia on the way to Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Catholic Church opened 1883. Now privately owned. (2)
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. A galvanised iron school opend in 1878. It was replaced by this stone school in 1893. The school closed in 1967.
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