Cannawigara is a locality in the

Limestone Coast The Limestone Coast is a name used since the early twenty-first century for a South Australian government region located in the south east of South Australia which immediately adjoins the continental coastline and the Victorian border. The ...

region of

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. It is crossed by the Dukes Highway and Adelaide-Melbourne railway line northwest of Bordertown. The southern end of the

Ngarkat Highway Ngarkat Highway is a road in the southeastern part of South Australia, connecting Pinnaroo and Bordertown. It is designated as part of route B57 which continues north from Pinnaroo along Browns Well Highway to Loxton (concurrent with B12 on ...

is the Dukes Highway adjacent to the Cannawigara railway station. While the Dukes Highway runs northwest from Bordertown, Cannawigara Road runs due west. The name of the locality is drawn from the railway station, which in turn was named for an 1851 pastoral lease. The word is an

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name for a long line of gum trees or a pathway of sticks over soft ground, and one of the six clans in the Tatiara region. One of the major enterprises in the area is onion growing and there is a large packing shed near the former railway siding.

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