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Eyre Peninsula (other)
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Eyre Peninsula is a peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia Eyre Peninsula may also refer to. *Eyre Peninsula Railway, a railway * Eyre Peninsula Tribune, a newspaper * Eyre Peninsula blue gum, a species of tree * Eyre Peninsula bushfire, 2005, a bushfire See also * District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula * Railway stations on the Eyre Peninsula *Eyre (other) Eyre may refer to: Name *Eyre (given name) *Eyre (surname) Places Australia National *Eyre Highway, a highway connecting South Australia and Western Australia South Australia * Eyre Peninsula (other) *Eyre, South Australia, a suburb * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored parts of the peninsula in 1839–41. The coastline was first charted by the expeditions of Matthew Flinders in 1801–02 and French explorer Nicolas Baudin around the same time. Flinders also named the nearby Yorke’s Peninsula and Spencer’s Gulph on the same voyage. The peninsula's economy is primarily agricultural, with growing aquaculture, mining, and tourism sectors. The main towns are Port Lincoln in the south, Whyalla and Port Augusta in the northeast, and Ceduna in the northwest. Port Lincoln (''Galinyala'' in Barngarla), Whyalla and Port Augusta (''Goordnada'') are part of the Barngarla Aboriginal country. Ceduna is within the Wirangu country. Naming and extent The peninsula was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula Railway
The Eyre Peninsula Railway is a gauge railway on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Radiating out from the ports at Port Lincoln and Thevenard, it is isolated from the rest of the South Australian railway network. Peaking at 777 kilometres in 1950, today only one 60 kilometre section remains open. It is operated by Aurizon. History The Eyre Peninsula Railway was built and operated by the South Australian Railways (SAR). As with many other early narrow-gauge railways in South Australia, the Eyre Peninsula lines started out as isolated lines connecting small ports to the inland, opening up the country for settlement and economic life including export of grain and other produce in an environment with few roads and only horse-drawn road vehicles. The railway has always been isolated from the main network. A proposal to link it with the rest of the network at Port Augusta was rejected in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. The first 67 kilometres from Port Lincoln to Cummin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula Tribune
The ''Eyre Peninsula Tribune'' was a weekly newspaper published in Cleve, South Australia, founded in late 1910 and published from March 1911 to April 9, 2020. From 1911 to 1950 it was titled ''Eyre's Peninsula Tribune'', reflecting a time when South Australia's peninsulas were referred to using possessives (e.g. ''Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser''). It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History ''Eyre's Peninsula Tribune'' was founded in December 1910, with the first issue released on 10 March 1911. The newspaper was founded in Cowell by Charles Wallace, and after his death in 1912 it was managed by George Wallace, and in 1920 it was sold to E.R. Main. In 1941, during wartime rationing, it subsumed the ''Kimba Dispatch'' (2 September 1927 - 9 May 1941), which had been founded as a subsidiary by Main. On Thursday 15 May 1941, a subtitle (''with which is incorporated the Kimba " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula Blue Gum
''Eucalyptus petiolaris'', commonly known as Eyre Peninsula blue gum, water gum or blue gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to South Australia. It is also naturalised in Western Australia. It has rough, flaky bark on the trunk, smooth greyish bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, cream-coloured, yellow, pink or red flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus petiolaris'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, flaky bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth greyish and yellowish bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish green, egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on an unbranched, pendent peduncle long, the individual buds on pedice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula Bushfire, 2005
The Eyre Peninsula bushfire of 2005, an event also known locally as Black Tuesday and by South Australian Government agencies as the Wangary bushfire, was a bushfire that occurred during January 2005 on the lower part of the Eyre Peninsula, a significant part of South Australia's wheat belt, where most of the land is either cropped or grazed. The fire resulted in of land being burnt, the loss of nine lives, injury to another 115 people, and huge property damage. It was South Australia's worst bushfire since the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983. Heat from the fire reached , with speeds up to . Ignition: Monday 10 January 2005 Maximum temperatures were recorded on 10 January 2005 as at Coles Point and at Port Lincoln; winds gusted to . The bushfire began not long after 3 pm in roadside vegetation on Lady Franklyn Road north of the town of Wangary, approximately north-west of Port Lincoln. The source of ignition was subsequently found to have been a vehicle parked in gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Council Of Lower Eyre Peninsula
The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula is a local government area located on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The district covers the southern tip of the peninsula, except for the small area taken up by the City of Port Lincoln. The main council offices are in Cummins, with a branch office in Port Lincoln, even though Port Lincoln is actually in its own council area, not encompassed by the council. History The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula traces its history back to 1880 when a district council was first created for the Port Lincoln area. The District Council of Lincoln was established in on 1 July 1880. Its boundaries were exactly those of the Hundred of Lincoln and included Boston and Grantham islands. Council members, listed as "Messrs. William Brooke Carlin, Gustave Möller, John Garrett, Henry Walter Owen, and Robert Duddlestone", first met at the Pier Hotel in July of that year and William Carlin was elected chairman. The new district council was greatl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations On The Eyre Peninsula
This article describes the railway stations on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia that were located on the lines of the Port Lincoln Division of the former South Australian Railways (SAR). Few of them were staffed. All stations were closed in 1968 when the SAR withdrew all passenger services. History From 1908 until the early 1960s, the lines of the SAR's Port Lincoln Division, 832 km (517 mi) long at their maximum extent, were the lifeline for much of Eyre Peninsula because roads were non-existent at the dawn of the century and substandard even at the end of that period. The lines did not follow the spread of agricultural settlement; in most cases the railways preceded settlement and in fact made it possible. As the railways were built, towns were surveyed along the way. Some of these grew into small settlements and a few prospered. Only three towns along the railway ( Port Lincoln, Ceduna and Penong) existed before the coming of the railway; all the others we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
