Muloorina is both a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. The name and boundaries of the locality were created on 26 April 2013 after the long-established local name. [1]
The property is situated approximately 48 kilometres (30 mi) north of Marree and 156 kilometres (97 mi) east of William Creek. It is located on the edge of Lake Eyre, and Frome Creek runs through a portion of the station. [2]
The station currently occupies an area of 4,000 square kilometres (1,544 sq mi) and runs both sheep and cattle. [3]
The property was established some time prior to 1880 [4] on Tirari tribal land. By 1938 it was owned by Stan and Elliot Price and was under the management of Ellery Talbot. [5] The property was flooded in 1938 when Frome Creek broke its banks. [6]
In 1964, Donald Campbell and his 500 strong entourage stayed at the 800-square-kilometre (309 sq mi) property when he set the land speed record on the dry Lake Eyre in his car, Bluebird. [7]
The historic Lake Harry Date Plantation Site is located at Muloorina and listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. [8]
Lake Frome / Munda is a large endorheic lake in the Australian state of South Australia to the east of the Northern Flinders Ranges. It is a large, shallow, unvegetated salt pan, 100 kilometres (62 mi) long and 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide, lying mostly below sea level and having a total surface area of 259,615 hectares. It only rarely fills with brackish water flowing down usually dry creeks in the Northern Flinders Ranges from the west, or exceptional flows down the Strzelecki Creek from the north.
Lake Frome National Park, formerly Lake Frome Regional Reserve, is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about 750 kilometres (470 mi) north-east of the state capital of Adelaide, in the Northern Flinders Ranges. It covers the full extent of Lake Frome, an endorheic and ephemeral salt lake. It has an area of 2,582.40 square kilometres (997.07 sq mi).
The Tirari Desert is a 15,250 square kilometres (5,888 sq mi) desert in the eastern part of the Far North region of South Australia. It stretches 212 km from north to south and 153 km from east to west.
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