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Wilpena Pound And St
Wilpena may refer to: * Wilpena Pound, geological feature in South Australia * Wilpena Station, a former pastoral lease in South Australia * Wilpena Island - refer List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia is a list of islands located within the watercourse of the Murray River within the Australian state of South Australia from the mouth of the river at Encounter Bay in the south to the ... See also * * * Wilpena Pound Airport - refer List of airports by IATA code: H {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound – also known by its Adnyamathanha language, Adnyamathanha name of Ikara, meaning "meeting place" – is a natural amphitheatre of mountains located north of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in the heart of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park. It is accessible via a sealed road which continues on to the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Flinders Ranges town of Blinman, South Australia, Blinman and to the south, Hawker, South Australia, Hawker. Attempts at farming the Pound failed during the early 20th century. Following this, the tourism potential was recognised in 1945. Geomorphology The area is part of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Despite early amateur theories that it was some kind of ancient volcano, the actual Pound is a syncline, synclinal basin, with the fold axis running NNW-SSE through Edeowie Gorge at the northern end and Rawnsley's Bluff at the southern. A corresponding anticline is located in the adjacent Moralana Gorge, with the Elder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpena Station
Henry Strong Price (8 May 1825 – 30 November 1889), generally known as H.S. Price, or simply Harry Price, was a pioneer sheep pastoralist of South Australia, best known as founder and proprietor of Wilpena Station at Wilpena Pound, now part of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park. Early life Born at Marlborough, Wiltshire on 8 May 1825, Price was the second son of Peninsula War veteran Captain David Molloy Price of the 36th Regiment, and Mary, ''nee'' Strong. His elder brother, who remained in England, was Dr. Richard Edmonds Price (1822-1900), M.R.C.S., a captain in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and a mayor of Marlborough. Seeking adventure and fortune in his own right, Price arrived in South Australia as a cabin passenger on the barque ''Fortitude'' in April 1842, just a month before his seventeenth birthday. The newly arrived youth became connected that same year with Charles Campbell, a livestock overlander from New South Wales. In January 1843 Campbell and Price took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpena Island
Wilpena may refer to: * Wilpena Pound, geological feature in South Australia * Wilpena Station, a former pastoral lease in South Australia * Wilpena Island - refer List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia is a list of islands located within the watercourse of the Murray River within the Australian state of South Australia from the mouth of the river at Encounter Bay in the south to the ... See also * * * Wilpena Pound Airport - refer List of airports by IATA code: H {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands Within The Murray River In South Australia
List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia is a list of islands located within the watercourse of the Murray River within the Australian state of South Australia from the mouth of the river at Encounter Bay in the south to the borders with the states of New South Wales and Victoria in the east including the following lakes located adjacent to the river's mouth - Coorong, Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina. Coorong The following list includes islands (listed from west to east) in the Coorong as well as the following two channels connecting it to Port Pullen at the Murray Mouth - the Coorong Channel and the Tauwitchere Channel. As of 2014, all of the islands in the following list were within the boundary of the Coorong National Park.BIA, 2005, page 27DEWNR, 2014aDEWNR, 2014bDEWNR, 2014cDEWNR, 2014dDMH, 1985, chart 9 Lake Albert Lake Alexandrina The following is a list of islands (from west to east) within Lake Alexandrina and including the group of is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilpena Pound Airport
Wilpena may refer to: * Wilpena Pound, geological feature in South Australia * Wilpena Station, a former pastoral lease in South Australia * Wilpena Island - refer List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia is a list of islands located within the watercourse of the Murray River within the Australian state of South Australia from the mouth of the river at Encounter Bay in the south to the ... See also * * * Wilpena Pound Airport - refer List of airports by IATA code: H {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
