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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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Flinders Ranges South Australia. Details of the Cradock Catholic Church built in 1883. The town established 1878 for wheat growing in semi desert land. Town soon deserted. Now almost a ghost town.
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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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Farina ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the stone Post Office built in 1878. In 1960 it closed. .
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Beetaloo. The pretty creek in a very pretty valley. Just below Beetaloo Reservoir.
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Marree South Australia. Near Lake Eyre. At the start of the Birdsville Track. The Afghan Mosque and pool in 1909 by Mrs A.M. Hopewell. State Library photo.B38315 .
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Parachilna Gorge in the South Australian Flinders Ranges. Dry creek bed, gum trees and water eroded red cliffs.
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Quorn. The fine Catholic Church and its porch. opened in 1883.
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Flinders Ranges. South Australia. SCreen shot of the former Parachilna Primary School. It closed some years ago.
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Aboriginal cave art at Yourambulla Aboriginal Caves in the Flinders Ranges South Australia.
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Marree. The platform of the disused railway station. Station building on the left. This was used by the old Ghan train service to Alice Springs from 1929 to 1980.
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Wilmington. The timber famed Billiard Club. Probably built in the 1890s. These three shops had many uses bakery, butcher, barber, blacksmith and billaird rooms.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. A colourful wall mural highlights the town's claim to fame. The Ediacaran fossils the earliest multicelled life on earth.
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Laura. The fine Catholic church. Land obtained 1873 church built 1877 and convent added too. Church demolished 1929 when this church was erected.
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Farina ghost town of the Flinders Ranges. As the sign says founded in 1878 in anticipation of the Great Northern Railway reaching there in 1882. The ruins of the Transcontinental Hotel in the distance.
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Beetaloo. The flats beside the creek where workmen lived in tents during the construction of Beetaloo Reservoir 1886 to 1890. Grazing sheep.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Amazing Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel.
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Parachilna. Aboriginal art in the Prairie Hotel gallery.
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Flinders Ranges SA. Water in the creek beside the ruins of Kanyaka sheep station. It was founded in 1851 and deserted in 1881. Magnificent River Red Gums. Over the creek is the station cemetery.
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Historic Blinman an old copper mining town of the Flinders Ranges. The North Blinman Hotel opened in 1869 and is still trading with a gallery of good historical photographs. .
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Cradock. This stone Methodist Church opened in 1925. It replaced a weatherboard Wesleyan Methodist erected in 1884. Became a Uniting Chruch in 1977 and closed in 1984. Now a residence.
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Farina. Ghost town north of the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the Post Office built in the 1880s.
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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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Flinders Ranges. A view of Wilpena Pound from Huck's Lookout. A popular painting spot for Sir Hans Heysen.
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Quorn. Steam train getting ready to take tourists on the Ghan Express from Quorn to Port Augusta through the Pichi Richi Pass in the Flinders Ranges.
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Blinman 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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Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. This was the galvanised iron Methodist Church from around 1874. It closed around 1943 and became the libary. Now it is the information centre with new external cladding.
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Beltana an almost ghost town in the Flinders Ranges. Dead tree and dead building.
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Nepabunna. Aboriginal carving at the entrance to the Iga Warta Aboriginal cutlural centre and camp grounds.
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Flinders Ranges South Australia. The impressive and expansive stone ruins of Kankya sheep station. Established as leasehold 1851. Resumed by the government for wheat farming lands . Station deserted 1881.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Magnificent River Red Gums along Sliding Rock Creek on a foggy morning. Near the Afghan memorial on Beltana Pastoral Company station.
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Bangor. In the Flinders Ranges and Germein Gorge. The ruins of the former Bangor Hotel.Built in 1888. Closed in 1911. Old Pepper Trees. Schinus molle from southern Brazil. .
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Angorichina in the Flinders Ranges. The Soldiers Tuberculosis hostel in 1940. State Library photo. PRG 16422667.
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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 shearers quarters, mens dining room, staff accommodation et.
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Near 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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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Martins bush pub opened in 1871 when the Overland Telegraph was being built. Town surveyed 1874 and it was licensed as Beltana's first hotel. Built 1874. Now an art gallery hence the maze.
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Historic Blinman in the Flinders Ranges. An old copper mining town established in 1863. This stone state school was built in 1883. Closed in 1980. In recent years it was used as a cafe but is now just a residence.
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Magnificent Port Augusta branch of Bank of SA building erected 1881. Taken over by Union Bank 1882 and closed as a bank forever in 1894. Good classical style and proportions.
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Farina in the Flinders Ranges. The town was established in 1879. It was a ghost town by 1967. This is the old railway station in 1958.
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Pichi Richi Pass in the Flinders Ranges. Old house and tank taken from the Ghan Express steam train.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Ancient multi celled World heritage Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel.
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Wilmington. This Bible Christian Methodist Church was built in 1880. This Soldiers Memorial porch was added in 1926. At rear is the hall built in 1953 replacing the old Wesleyan Church
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Ancient multi celled Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel.
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Melrose. Stone store shed next to the old flourmill which became Jackas brewery. Mill built 1878. Brewery ran 1893 to 1934.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Amazing and ancient multi celled Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel.
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Marree. Two rail bridges on the outskirts of the town one 3 feet 6 inches gauge and the other 4 feet 8 and a half inches gauge.
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Quorn. The Ghan Express on the Pichi RIchi railway being hauled by a steame engine en route from Quorn to Port Augusta.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Sir Thomas Eldsers shearer quarters on Beltana station in the fog. Built in the 1860s. Later owned by Beltana Pastoral Company.
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Marree. The world's most unusual yacht club. The Lake Eyre Yacht Club which only opens about every ten years or so when water flows into Lake Eyre.
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Melrose School. Opened 1879.
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Beltana in the SA Flinders Ranges. The old Presbyterian Church built in 1893 and the memorial to the Rev Jean Flynn who founded the Royal Flying Doctor service and the Australian Inland Mission.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of the town's old general store. Built in the 1879. Closed as a general store in 1969. .
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