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Flow FM (Australia)
Flow FM is an Adult contemporary-formatted radio station based in Kapunda, South Australia, and broadcasting to regional and remote communities of South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory. It began broadcasting as ''Radio Freshstream'' in 2001. Programming * ''The Breaky Flow'' with Han and Damo * Mornings with Wayne 'the Flowman' Phillips * Afternoons with Lisa Jay * ''Friday Night Footy Show'' with Wayne 'the Flowman' Phillips * The Alan Jones Show ''(on relay from 2GB Sydney)'' * Jonesy & Amanda's Afternoon Delight ''(on relay from WSFM Sydney)'' * Take 40 Australia * My Generation * Ben Sorensen's REAL Country Frequencies Victoria * 97.9 FM Marengo (Apollo Bay) * 90.9 FM Otway Ranges (Beech Forest) * 106.3 FM Healesville * 106.5 FM Donald Birchip * 95.3 FM Hopetoun, Ouyen, Mallee Region South Australia * 100.3 FM Bordertown * 106.1 FM Ceduna * 106.9 FM Central Eyre Peninsula * 99.7 FM Coober Pedy * 97.7 FM Coorong * 107.3 FM Kingston SE, Robe * 90.9 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapunda
Kapunda is a town on the Light River and near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits. The population was 2,917 at the 2016 Australian census. The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner. The statue was destroyed by a fire in June 2006 but was rebuilt. History Francis Dutton and Charles Bagot, who both ran sheep in the area, discovered copper ore outcrops in 1842. They purchased around the outcrop, beginning mining early in 1844 after good assay results. Mining began with the removal of surface ore and had progressed to underground mining by the end of the year. Copper was mined until 1879. There are also quarries near the town which provide fine marble ranging from dark blue to white. Marble from the Kapunda quarries was used to face Parliament House in Adelaide, and the pedestal of the statue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watchem
Watchem is a town in north western Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Buloke local government area and on the Sunraysia Highway, north west of the state capital, Melbourne and from nearby Donald. Watchem is a town with very few attractions at the , Watchem and the surrounding area had a population of 124. Watchem has a thriving lake based within walking distance from the town centre. The Watchem lake is beautiful with its rural and tranquil setting. The Post Office opened on 2 November 1889. With its neighbouring township Birchip, Watchem has a football team (Birchip-Watchem) competing in the North Central Football League The North Central Football League is an Australian rules football league based in North Central Victoria, Australia. The League was formed in 1930. Previous leagues in the area were the Birchip Football Association (as it was last called until i .... History There are many stories told on how the name Watchem came to be. One of the more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lameroo, South Australia
Lameroo is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. It is on the Mallee Highway and Pinnaroo railway line about 40 km west of the Victorian border, or 210 km east of Adelaide. It is primarily a service town for the surrounding rural areas, growing grain and sheep. Lameroo now includes the former settlements of Kulkami, Mulpata, Wirha and Gurrai, which were on the Peebinga railway line, and Wilkawatt, which was between Parrakie and Lameroo on the Pinnaroo railway. At the 2016 census, the locality of Lameroo had a population of 852 of which 562 lived in and around its town centre. The local school, the Lameroo Regional Community School is the school not only for Lameroo youth, but also surrounding towns Geranium, Parrakie and Parilla. The town is home to the Lameroo Hawks Football Club, coached by former Adelaide Crows player Rodney Maynard. History Land in the Murray Mallee region was first taken up on pastoral lease in the late 1850s. For the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnaroo, South Australia
Pinnaroo is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, near the border with Victoria, 243 km east of Adelaide. Pinnaroo is on the north side of the Mallee Highway, and on the railway line between Tailem Bend and Ouyen. The roadhouse on the highway at Pinnaroo is the first "food and leg-stretch" stop on the bus route from Adelaide to Sydney. At the 2016 census, the locality of Pinnaroo had a population of 712 of which 547 lived in and around its town centre. History The town's name is derived from a word for "big man" in a local Aboriginal language. The railway arrived in the area in 1906. There had not been any significant development in the area before that, as the remoteness and difficulty of getting supplies in and produce out had made it uneconomic to farm before that. Economy The railway is not currently available for transport between the states, as the line from Tailem Bend was converted to standard gauge and more recently mothballed forcing grain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maitland, South Australia
Maitland () is a town in South Australia. By road, it is 168 km west of Adelaide by, 164 km south of Port Pirie and 46 km north of Minlaton known as the "heart of Yorke Peninsula" due to being near the centre of the region. At the , Maitland had a population of 1,029. Maitland is within a short driving distance of coastal towns on either side, with Port Victoria to the west and Ardrossan to the east, each within 25 km. It has a grain receiving depot operated by AWB Limited, serviced only by road. Maitland is also the home base of the Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association. History The town was named in 1872 after Lady Jean Maitland, who died in 1766, who was the wife of the 2nd Lord of Kilkerran, Sir James Fergusson, 1688-1759 2nd Baronet of Kilkerran, the Great-Great Grandmother of governor of South Australia at this time, Sir James Fergusson 1832-1907; the local aborigines calling it "madu waltu", meaning white flint. Maitland's urban design is patt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robe, South Australia
Robe is a town and fishing port located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The town's distinctive combination of historical buildings, ocean, fishing fleets, lakes and dense bush is widely appreciated. Robe lies on the southern shore of Guichen Bay, just off the Princes Highway. At the , Robe had a population of 998. Robe is the main town in the District Council of Robe local government area. It is in the state electorate of MacKillop and the federal Division of Barker. History Aboriginal use European use Robe, one of the oldest towns in South Australia, was founded by the colonial government as a seaport, administrative centre and village just ten years after the Province of South Australia was established. Robe was named after the fourth Governor of South Australia, Major Frederick Robe, who chose the site as a port in 1845. The town was proclaimed as a port in 1847. It became South Australia's second-busiest (after Port Adelaide) international port in the 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston SE
Kingston SE (Kingston South East to distinguish it from Kingston-on-Murray) formerly Kingston is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east coastline on the shores of Lacepede Bay. It is located about southeast of the state capital of Adelaide and north-west of the centre of the city of Mount Gambier. At the 2016 census, Kingston SE had a population of 1,648. History Kingston, South Australia was established in the 1800s by Archibald, his brother James Cooke and James' wife Mrs. Mary Macpherson Cooke. Much later a Sir George Strickland Kingston, a South Australian politician, surveyor and architect was chosen, for the co-incidence of his name, to open the Kingston Post Office on 9 February 1869. The extension on its name is to distinguish Kingston in the South East (of South Australia) from another 'Kingston' in the state which is now officially named " Kingston on Murray". The extension was added in July 1940. The present-day town o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coorong, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Coorong is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia which is associated with the lagoon known as the Coorong in the south-east of the state and which overlooks the continental coastline from the mouth of the Murray River about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide to the immediate north of the town of Kingston SE extending for a distance of at least . It extends from the Murray Mouth in the north to the northern end of the Paranki Lagoon in the south including: *the following bodies of water with the Murray River system - Port Pullen, Coorong Channel, the Tauwitchere Channel and the full extent of the Coorong lagoon system, * the following major islands - Bird, Ewe, Long, Mud and Tauwitchere * the full extent of the Younghusband Peninsula *a parcel of land of an area of located between the localities of Meningie and Salt Creek and * land between the Coorong Lagoon and the Paranki Lagoon. The boundaries of the locality were created firstly f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coober Pedy, South Australia
Coober Pedy () is a town in northern South Australia, north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground dwellings, called "dugout (shelter), dugouts", which are built in this fashion due to the scorching daytime heat. The name "Coober Pedy" is thought to derive from the Aboriginal Australian languages, Aboriginal term ''kupa-piti'', which means "whitefellas' hole", but in 1975 the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people of the town adopted the name Umoona, which means "long life" and is also their name for the Acacia aneura, mulga tree. In the 2016 Australian census, there were 1,762 people in Coober Pedy. History Aboriginal peoples have a long-standing connection with the area. Coober Pedy is considered by the senior Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert people to be the traditional lands ... [...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] |
Ceduna, South Australia
Ceduna ( ) is a town in South Australia located on the shores of Murat Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It lies west of the junction of the Flinders and Eyre Highways around 786 km northwest of the capital Adelaide. The port town/suburb of Thevenard lies 3 km to the west on Cape Thevenard. It is in the District Council of Ceduna, the federal Division of Grey, and the state electoral district of Flinders. The name Ceduna is a corruption of the local Aboriginal Wirangu word ''Chedoona'' and is said to mean a place to sit down and rest. The town has played an important but minor role in Australia's overall development due to it being a fishing port and a railway hub. History Ceduna is on the land of the Wirangu people. Matthew Flinders, on his voyage in the ''Investigator'', anchored in Fowlers Bay on 28 January 1802. He went on to explore the coast and named Denial Bay, Smoky Bay and the islands of Nuyts Archipelago. He was disappointed to find no r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordertown, South Australia
Bordertown, formerly Border Town, is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's east near the state border with Victoria about east of the state capital of Adelaide. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line cross the Tatiara Creek between Adelaide and Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. Bordertown is the commercial and administrative centre of the Tatiara District Council. ''Tatiara'' is the local Aboriginal word for "Good Country". History Bordertown was established in 1852 when a direct route across the Ninety Mile Desert was being planned for gold escorts from the Victorian goldfields to Adelaide. Police Inspector Alexander Tolmer was instructed to create a town as close as practical to the border. Tolmer was upset when the town was not named after him, but that was made up for by naming several sites around Bordertown after him, such as Tolmer Park and Tolmer Takeaway. Land was first offered for sale in the new governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
