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YORKE PENINSULA
Fix this textStanding Article numbered YP-1 dated 20/10/71
Fix this textPublication in full or in part is invited. If photographs are
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Fix this textThe South Australian Government Tourist Bureau,
Fix this text27 King William Street, Adelaide, 5001.
Fix this textEach year Yorke Peninsula is coming more into holiday considerations. Beach resorts,
Fix this textrugged coastal scenery and the ruins of old copper mining installations are the
Fix this textattractions. Fishing, swimming, boating, water ski-ing and sightseeing are the main
Fix this textpursuits.
Fix this textYorke Peninsula is defined as lying south of the line from the head of Gulf St.
Fix this textVincent to the northern shore of Wallaroo Bay. It is about 193 kilometres (120 miles)
Fix this textlong and 40 kilometres (25 miles) wide, shaped like a great leg, with the road from
Fix this textPort Wakefield to Wallaroo a garter, and Cape Spencer the tip of the big toe dipping
Fix this textgingerly into Investigator Strait.
Fix this textThe country is gently undulating. Much of it is divided into neat cereal farms
Fix this textwhere the bulk of Australia's barley is grown. In the southwest, gypsum is quarried
Fix this textfor the Australian building industry.
Fix this textNo place on the peninsula is far from views which blend the grey green arabesques
Fix this textof mallee, golden barley and the blues of sea and sky.
Fix this textNorthern Yorke Peninsula has been termed 'Australia's Little Cornwall' from the
Fix this textdays when it was a copper mining centre. The population still includes a fair sprinkling
Fix this textof descendants of the cousin Jacks and cousin Jennies who came from Cornwall to work
Fix this textthe mines. Visits to the disused mines near Moonta, and Wallaroo Mines (near Kadina)
Fix this textand to museums of mining artifacts in the towns give variety to holidays at the coastal
Fix this textresorts of Wallaroo, Moonta Bay and Port Hughes.
Fix this textMany sightseers motor down the east cost, calling at Ardrossan, Black Point,
Fix this textPort Vincent, Stansbury and the old port of Edithburgh on the heel of the foot. Port
Fix this textVincent and Stansbury are seaside resorts only 21 kilometres (13 miles) apart.
Fix this textSigns along the south and west coasts of Yorke Peninsula read "Beware - the
Fix this textinviting ocean at the bottom of Yorke Peninsula is notorious for drowning. Make sure
Fix this textyou're not the next victim'. It is well to heed the warning while sightseeing. The
Fix this textcoast at Cape Spencer, Pondalowie Bay and Browns Beach is spectacular. Pondalowie
Fix this textBay is almost encircled by beach, with islands protecting its entrance. On quite rough
Fix this textdays, with the sea breaking heavily outside on nearby Ethel Bay, it is quiet and safe at
Fix this textPondalowie.
Fix this textPort Victoria, on the western side facing Spencer Gulf, has long beaches, rocks
Fix this textto explore and the whole of the peninsula within easy motoring distance.
Fix this textNATIONAL PARKS on YORKE PENINSULA
Fix this textLinton National Park, 19 kilometres (12 miles) west of Port Wakefield.
Fix this textInnes National Park, 6 kilometres (4 miles) west of Stenhouse Bay.
Fix this textWarrenben National Park, 29 kilometres (18 miles) north of Stenhouse Bay.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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