Angorichina is a

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, in area, in the

Flinders Ranges The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide. The ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabi ...

in the Australian state of

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. Its three small centres of population, disposed on an east-west axis long, are Angorichina Station, Blinman, and Angorichina Tourist Village.

Angorichina Station

The lease was first taken up by Septimus Boord in 1853. In 1859, the property was visited by the surveyors Selwyn and Goyder and by the

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, Richard MacDonnell. Later the same year a shepherd on Angorichina Station, Robert Blinman, first discovered

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and took out a mining lease which later became the Blinman mine. Walter Henry McFarlane acquired Angorichina in the early 1920s after disposing of

Warrioota Warrioota Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated about south west of Leigh Creek and north west of Blinman. The property shares a boundary with Nilpena Station and abuts Lake Torrens ...

Station. In 1941 the property was carrying a flock of 38,000 sheep that produced 1300 bales of wool. , Angorichina Station was still a working

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, covering hills, creek beds, gorges and

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. The 1860s-era

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, east of

Blinman Blinman is a locality incorporating two towns located in the Australian state of South Australia within the Flinders Ranges about north of the state capital of Adelaide. It is very small but has the claim of being the highest surveyed town in S ...

, also accommodates up to six visitors for an upmarket

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of a

sheep station.

Blinman

Blinman, the small

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within the pastoral lease had a population, in 2016, of 35.

Angorichina Village

This small tourist village, west of the Angorichina Station homestead, provides accommodation, a caravan park and some services. The site was originally established in 1927 as Angorichina Hostel by the Tubercular Soldiers Association as a

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for returned servicemen of

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References

{{Stations of South Australia Flinders Ranges Stations (Australian agriculture) Pastoral leases in South Australia Far North (South Australia)

Angorichina Station

Blinman

Angorichina Village

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