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Olary is a town and locality on the
Barrier Highway in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
.
It is situated near
Olary Creek and is one of the easternmost settlements in South Australia. The name "Olary" was first given to a nearby well or waterhole by pastoralists Duffield,
Harrold and Hurd.
Description and history
This small settlement was established in the late 1880s to service the highway and the railway which pass through here. ''O'Lary'' Post Office opened on 12 October 1886, was renamed ''Oolarie'' around 1888 and ''Olary'' around 1896.
After the modernisation of transport which travelled between Adelaide and Broken Hill the village population declined. However it still has a hotel and general store to cater for the transient road and railway workers and travellers.
The Flinders-Olary NatureLink includes the mountainous
Flinders and Olary Ranges together with the connecting plains country to cover 6% of the South Australian state.
In 2010 the historic Bimbowrie
Cobb and Co coach house near Olary became the scene of a traditional restoration operation with almost 20 tradespeople attending a five-day training course in stonemasonry restoration techniques. Low-security prisoners from the
Port Augusta Prison
Port Augusta Prison is a prison located in Stirling North just south of Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia.
The prison has facilities for high, medium and low security prisoners including protectees and special needs prisoners. With a c ...
were among those who assisted with the project.
The nearby
Mount Victoria Well & Whim Historic Site is listed on the
South Australian Heritage Register
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.
Governance
Olary is located within the federal
division of Grey
The Division of Grey is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 ...
, the state
electoral district of Stuart
Stuart is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. At 323,131 km², it is a vast country district extending from the Spencer Gulf as far as the Northern Territo ...
and the
Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.
municipal services
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from a South Australian government agency, the Outback Communities Authority.
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.
:For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adela ...
References
External links
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Towns in South Australia
Far North (South Australia)
Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia