Yorke Peninsula [microform]

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mc N 2225 JAFp HIST 2080
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[Adelaide] : South Australian Government Tourist Bureau, 1971
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YORKE PENINSULA  

Standing Article numbered YP-1 dated 20/10/71  

Publication in full or in part is invited. If photographs are  

required for publication please contact  

The South Australian Government Tourist Bureau,  

27 King William Street, Adelaide, 5001.  

Each year Yorke Peninsula is coming more into holiday considerations. Beach resorts,  

rugged coastal scenery and the ruins of old copper mining installations are the  

attractions. Fishing, swimming, boating, water ski-ing and sightseeing are the main  

pursuits.  

Yorke Peninsula is defined as lying south of the line from the head of Gulf St.  

Vincent to the northern shore of Wallaroo Bay. It is about 193 kilometres (120 miles)  

long and 40 kilometres (25 miles) wide, shaped like great leg, with the road from  

Port Wakefield to Wallaroo garter, and Cape Spencer the tip of the big toe dipping  

gingerly into Investigator Strait.  

The country is gently undulating. Much of it is divided into neat cereal farms  

where the bulk of Australia's barley is grown. In the southwest, gypsum is quarried  

for the Australian building industry.  

No place on the peninsula is far from views which blend the grey green arabesques  

of mallee, golden barley and the blues of sea and sky.  

Northern Yorke Peninsula has been termed 'Australia's Little Cornwall' from the  

days when it was copper mining centre. The population still includes fair sprinkling  

of descendants of the cousin Jacks and cousin Jennies who came from Cornwall to work  

the mines. Visits to the disused mines near Moonta, and Wallaroo Mines (near Kadina)  

and to museums of mining artifacts in the towns give variety to holidays at the coastal  

resorts of Wallaroo, Moonta Bay and Port Hughes.  

Many sightseers motor down the east cost, calling at Ardrossan, Black Point,  

Port Vincent, Stansbury and the old port of Edithburgh on the heel of the foot. Port  

Vincent and Stansbury are seaside resorts only 21 kilometres (13 miles) apart.  

Signs along the south and west coasts of Yorke Peninsula read "Beware the  

inviting ocean at the bottom of Yorke Peninsula is notorious for drowning. Make sure  

you're not the next victim'. It is well to heed the warning while sightseeing. The  

coast at Cape Spencer, Pondalowie Bay and Browns Beach is spectacular. Pondalowie  

Bay is almost encircled by beach, with islands protecting its entrance. On quite rough  

days, with the sea breaking heavily outside on nearby Ethel Bay, it is quiet and safe at  

Pondalowie.  

Port Victoria, on the western side facing Spencer Gulf, has long beaches, rocks  

to explore and the whole of the peninsula within easy motoring distance.  

NATIONAL PARKS on YORKE PENINSULA  

Linton National Park, 19 kilometres (12 miles) west of Port Wakefield.  

Innes National Park, kilometres (4 miles) west of Stenhouse Bay.  

Warrenben National Park, 29 kilometres (18 miles) north of Stenhouse Bay.  

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