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It is summer, when vegetation is sparse. The buildings, not all occupied full-time, are in an area about 200 metres (200 yards) square. A freight train is on the east-west Trans-Australian Railway at the top of the photo; the Kingoonya Hotel is the largest building, near the north-east (top right) corner of the township.
Nora Creina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking the Southern Ocean.It is about 99 kilometres (62 miles) to the north-west of the city of Mount Gambier and about 290 kilometres (180 miles) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide.
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It is a popular location for boating, sailing, swimming, water-skiing, skindiving and wind-surfing, as well as fishing (rock, surf, angling and boat). [12] The town is named after the bay formed by the Coffin Bay Peninsula and the mainland, and lies on the southeastern shore of the bay. Oyster farming is conducted in the quiet waters of Coffin Bay.
Historically, Willunga is well known for its slate industry, which began in 1840 when a farmer named Edward Loud found slate on his property and later that year opened the first slate quarry. [7] The name Willunga derives from the Aboriginal word 'willangga' meaning 'the locality of green trees'. [8] Willunga Post Office opened on 14 July 1839. [9]
Osborne is the home of LeFevre Reserve, which also hosts a community centre. There are no schools in the suburb. The closest schools are in the adjacent suburbs of North Haven (North Haven School R-7) and Taperoo (Ocean View College B-12), [11] (originally Taperoo High School).
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), [6] it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people [3] it is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by ...
During World War II, Solomontown, now a suburb of Port Pirie, was the location of RAAF No.11 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), built in 1942 and closed on 14 June 1944. . Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the RAAF and the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,0