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Lookout Attractions In Arkaroola

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Arkaroola Resort and Wilderness Sanctuary

Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary

Beltana Station

Aroona Dam Sanctuary

Farina

Beltana

Heritage Blinman Mine

Arkaroola is the common name for the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, a wildlife sanctuary situated on 610 square kilometres of freehold and pastoral lease land in South Australia. It is located 700 kilometres north of the Adelaide city centre in the Northern Flinders Ranges, adjacent to the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The most common way to get there is by car, but air travel can be chartered from Parafield Airport, Adelaide Airport or Aldinga Airfield. It was used as a location set the 2002 film The Tracker.
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Lookout Attractions In Arkaroola

1. Aroona Dam Sanctuary Leigh Creek
Aroona Dam is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Leigh Creek about 5 kilometres west of the locality’s town centre.The dam consists of a concrete gravity dam of a height of 24 metres and a width of 236 metres which holds back a lake of a volume of 7.5×109 litres and which extends for a distance about 3.5 kilometres to the east of the dam wall.The origin of its name is not mentioned in sources. However, the word ‘Aroona’ is listed in the official government place name gazetteer as the name of some geographic features either adjoining the dam or located within its extent. A mountain, Mount Aroona, is located in the ridge on the north side of the dam’s lake. A former water feature is now located “under the waters of the Aroona...
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Arkaroola Videos

Places We Go - Arkaroola | Subaru Australia

Jen, Clint & little Charli head into a little piece of nature's paradise in outback South Australia, with an incredible story to match.

This is FREE? Flinders Ranges. Ep.46

We headed straight to the Flinders Ranges after our stay at The Grampians. It took us a good 3 days of driving to get to the start of the Flinders and that included a massive shop in Adelaide! We filled up with groceries

Beautiful sunset at Arkaroola, South Australia

Outback, Australia

GoPro: Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary

GoPro: Hero 3 Arkaroola Resort and Wilderness Sanctuary, Urrbrae Agricultural High School 2014

This is the video that Sam Coles, Bradley Parkyn, Jasper Van, Ashleigh Strunk, Paula Ostendorf, Courtney Usher, Millie Moore, Angus, and I made for our Arkaroola presentation with the legendary help of Mr Reed.

My apologies for the length of the video as it had to be over 5 minutes and towards the end we just filled it in with the extension of road and sped up video.

We all had such an amazing time at Arkaroola and it almost brings me to tears watching this video again.

2015 Outback South Australia

Trip to Dalhousie Springs, Oodnadatta Track, Arkaroola.
Visiting thermal springs, Mound springs, Old Ghan railway ruins, Overland Telegraph repeater station ruins and Arkaroola.

Arkaroola 5/10/2010 winter

Arkaroola 5/10/2010 winter
The area's first people are the Adnyamathanha. One of their dreamtime or creation stories says that Arkaroo, a mythical monster, drank Lake Frome dry. He then crawled up into the mountains. When he urinated he created the waterholes that are a feature of the area. His movement over the land created Arkaroola Creek.

The first Anglo-Europeans to visit the area was explorer Edward Eyre in 1840 and the surveyor George Goyder in 1857. There was a small failed settlement nearby, at the Yudnamutana copper mine, from 1860 to 1863. The drought of 1863 drove the miners away. Settlement didn't occur again until 1903, when rubies and sapphires were discovered. By 1910 a copper smelter was built at Yudnamutana and uranium was also discovered nearby by Douglas Mawson, famous Antarctic explorer.

The land was always marginal and projects failed quickly. Uranium exploration persisted sporadically and led to the development of good roads by optimistic companies. The Arkaroola property was fenced by 1935 and a process of eradication of pests started. The land was covered with donkeys and camels. There was a failed health project in 1948.

Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia

Come on a sonic journey to the breathtakingly scenic Wilpena Pound. This amphitheatre of 540 million-year-old mountains builds a secluded shelter for abundant and unique flora and fauna. Unwind as the birds greet another glorious day in this ancient landscape.

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South Australian Tourism Commission + Stayz TV Commercial - Flinders Ranges and Outback

Be moved by the Flinders Ranges and outback.

Flinders Range & Wilpena Pound & Arkaroola & Lake Eyre - 2014

Flinders Range
Wilpena Pound
Arkaroola
Lake Eyre

Places We Go - Mataranka | Subaru Australia

A friend told us Mataranka was a place in the NT you MUST visit. And after coming here -- we couldn't agree more.

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