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Quorn SA

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June 12th 2023
Heading for the small township of Quorn, located in the Southern Flinders Ranges, we stopped off at the ruins of the township of Wilson, and the ruins of Kanyaka Station. Both of these settlements reveal the folly of trying to farm crops north of the Goyder Line, which was a line drawn across South Australia by Surveyor General George Goyder in 1865, with places above the line receiving an average ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Quorn

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more