| Stuarts Creek South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 29°38′S137°03′E / 29.63°S 137.05°E Coordinates: 29°38′S137°03′E / 29.63°S 137.05°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5720 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Pastoral Unincorporated Area [1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Giles [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates [2] | ||||||||||||||
Stuarts Creek is a remote locality in the Far North region of South Australia. It lies in the state's Pastoral Unincorporated Area. [1] The name and boundaries were formalised on 26 April 2013, named after Stuart Creek Station, in respect of the long established local name. [2]
The Far North is a large region of South Australia close to the Northern Territory border. Colloquial usage of the term in South Australia refers to that part of South Australia north of a line roughly from Ceduna through Port Augusta to Broken Hill. The South Australian Government defines the Far North region similarly with the exception of the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands. the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve and other unincorporated crown lands in the state's far west, which are officially considered part of the Eyre and Western region.
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of less than 30,000.
Stuart Creek Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but now operates as a cattle station in outback South Australia.
It includes the former settlement of Coward Springs. [2] The Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park lies in the north-west of the locality. [1] [2]
Coward Springs is a former settlement and railway station in the desert in the Far North of South Australia, which has been privately developed as a camping ground. The name officially refers to a mound spring located nearby. It is situated on the Oodnadatta Track adjacent to the Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park, within the current locality of Stuarts Creek, 236 kilometres (147 mi) from Coober Pedy.
Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia. It is located in Stuarts Creek, about 130 kilometres north of the town of Marree via the Oodnadatta Track in the state's Far North. The conservation park was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 1996. As of 2012, it is subject to a co-management agreement between the Arabana aboriginal people and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
The Central Australia Railway (often referred to as the "Old Ghan") ran through Stuarts Creek, with former stations or sidings at Coward Springs, Margaret, and Stuart Creek (later Curdimurka) all within its current boundaries. The railway remnants at Coward Springs and Curdimurka are both listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. [1] [2]
The former Central Australia Railway was a 1241 km 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Adelaide and Alice Springs. A standard gauge line replaced the southern section from Port Augusta to Maree in 1957, but used a new nearby alignment. The entire line was superseded in 1980 by the wholly standard gauge Adelaide-Darwin railway, using a new route up to 200 km to the west. A small southern section of the original line between Port Augusta and Quorn has been preserved as the Pichi Richi Tourist Railway. A short section just south of Alice Springs has also been preserved.
The South Australian Heritage Register is a statutory register of historic places in South Australia. It extends legal protection regarding demolition and development under the Heritage Places Act 1993. It is administered by the South Australian Heritage Council. As a result of the progressive abolition of the Register of the National Estate during the 2000s and the devolution of responsibility for state-significant heritage to state governments, it is now the primary statutory protection for state-level heritage in South Australia.
