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The Best Attractions In Whyalla

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Whyalla , founded as Hummocks Hill and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier. At the 2016 Census, Whyalla had an urban population of 21,751. It is a seaport located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula and is known as the Steel City due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
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  • 1. Whyalla Maritime Museum Whyalla
    Whyalla , founded as Hummocks Hill and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier. At the 2016 Census, Whyalla had an urban population of 21,751. It is a seaport located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula and is known as the Steel City due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
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  • 4. Point Lowly Lighthouse Whyalla
    Point Lowly is the tip of a small peninsula north north-east of Whyalla in the Upper Spencer Gulf region of South Australia. The wider peninsula is shared by a combination of defence, industrial, residential, recreational and tourism interests. Port Bonython lies immediately to the north-west and is marked for future industrial expansion, driven by anticipated growth in the State's mining industry. The icons of the peninsula are the historic Point Lowly Lighthouse and the mass breeding aggregation of Giant Australian Cuttlefish which occurs inshore each winter. Point Lowly was named by Matthew Flinders during explorations in 1802. It also bears the lesser-known alternative name of Cap Lafontaine, given by French explorer Nicolas Baudin during his explorations in the same period. A boat-ram...
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  • 5. Whyalla Marina Whyalla
    Whyalla , founded as Hummocks Hill and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier. At the 2016 Census, Whyalla had an urban population of 21,751. It is a seaport located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula and is known as the Steel City due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
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  • 6. Whyalla Conservation Park Whyalla
    Whyalla , founded as Hummocks Hill and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier. At the 2016 Census, Whyalla had an urban population of 21,751. It is a seaport located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula and is known as the Steel City due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
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  • 8. Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden Port Augusta
    There are more than 140 botanical gardens in Australia, some like the Australian National Botanic Gardens have collections consisting entirely of Australian native and endemic species; most have a collection that include plants from around the world. There are botanical gardens and arboreta in all states and territories of Australia, most are administered by local governments, some are privately owned.
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  • 9. Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre Peterborough
    The Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre is a static railway museum based in the former railway workshops located in Peterborough, South Australia. Peterborough was the administrative and service centre for the Peterborough Division of the South Australian Railways, employing up to 1,500 people in the workshops during its heyday. The railway workshops covered an extensive area mainly to the west of the township, and it is in these original buildings that the exhibits are displayed. The turntable and roundhouse are the main features of the exhibit. The turntable is unusual in that it accommodates three rail gauges: Narrow gauge , standard gauge and broad gauge . In Australia there were only two similar turntables ; all three were on the same line, with the one at Peterborough the only one remaini...
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  • 10. Moonta Mines Museum Moonta
    Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, 165 km north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. It is one of three towns known as the Copper Coast or Little Cornwall for their shared copper mining history.
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  • 11. Bungaree Station Clare
    Bungaree is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia, situated north of Clare, along the Main North Road.
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  • 13. Mount Remarkable National Park South Australia
    Mount Remarkable National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about 238 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide and 25 kilometres east of Port Augusta. It is also the name of the highest peak in the Park, with a height of 960 metres .
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