12-643: Alawoona is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia . At the 2006 census , Alawoona had a population of 250. It lies on the Karoonda Highway and Loxton railway line where they both change direction from easterly to continue northwards for 35 km to Loxton . Alawoona was established as one of the original sidings during the construction of the Barmera railway line in 1906, 76.5 miles (123.1 km) from Tailem Bend . Soon after, Alawoona became
24-736: A flora and fauna reserve under the Crown Lands Act 1929 on 14 March 1940 in respect to sections 21, 22, 30, and 31 in the Hundred of Peebinga. On 30 September 1965, sections 19 and 30 were proclaimed under the Crown Lands Act 1929 as the Peebinga Wildlife Reserve . On 9 November 1967, the Peebinga National Park was proclaimed under the National Parks Act 1966 in respect to sections 19, 21, 22, 30, and 31. On 27 April 1972,
36-422: A junction when the spur line to Loxton was built. The town was surveyed in 1914 and is named for the local Aboriginal word for place of hot winds . The post office opened on 1 March 1915 and was closed on 18 March 1988. This South Australia geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Murray Mallee The Murray Mallee is a grain -growing and sheep -farming area in
48-493: Is a 34 km protected area lying 40 km north of the town of Pinnaroo in the Murray Mallee region of south-eastern South Australia , about 240 km east of Adelaide and 10 km west of the Victorian border. The conservation park occupies a parcel of land that extends across the localities of Karte , Kringin and Peebinga from west to east and consists of all of the land in sections 19, 21, 22, 30, and 31 of
60-547: The 1880s. Most of the remaining natural vegetation is in protected areas such as Ngarkat Conservation Park , Billiatt Conservation Park , Karte Conservation Park , Peebinga Conservation Park , Bakara Conservation Park and Lowan Conservation Park . 35°S 140°E / 35°S 140°E / -35; 140 This South Australia geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peebinga Conservation Park Peebinga Conservation Park (formerly Peebinga National Park )
72-619: The area. The main towns in the Murray Mallee are Karoonda , Lameroo and Pinnaroo . Towns along the River Murray are generally considered to be in the Riverland or Murraylands , rather than the Mallee. Originally the Murray Mallee was covered in thick mallee scrub . Large expanses – estimates are about 80% – of the mallee country were cleared for agricultural development, beginning as early as
84-546: The beginning of the 20th century. Artesian water was discovered at moderate depth, and 707 kilometres (439 miles) of railways were opened, mainly in the 1910s, to make shipping of grain economically feasible. The first railway was the Pinnaroo line in 1906 from Tailem Bend on the main Melbourne–Adelaide railway . The success of this line led to construction in 1913 of the Barmera railway line , curtailed at that stage on
96-470: The cadastral unit of the Hundred of Peebinga . The conservation park contains much land that was previously cleared for agriculture. It is characterised by remnants of mallee woodland on low, stabilised dunes . with regenerating open shrubland and grassland on sand plains. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area . The land under protection was first proclaimed as
108-584: The east of the Australian state of South Australia . The name is not formally designated but is widely used to refer to an area of approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7700 square miles) bounded by the River Murray on its northern and western sides, the Victorian border on its eastern side, and up to about 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of the Mallee Highway . The formal designated name for approximately
120-645: The national park was reconstituted as the Peebinga Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 . In 1982, the conservation park was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate . As well as grasses , the vegetation features ridge-fruited and slender-leaved mallee with warty cypress pine over broombush ; the higher areas have square-fruited , red and white mallees . Fauna found in
132-420: The same region is Murraylands . The Murray Mallee area is predominantly a vast plain of low elevation, with sandhills and gentle undulating sandy rises, interspersed by flats. The annual rainfall ranges from approximately 250 millimetres (9.8 inches) in the north to 400 millimetres (16 inches) further south. The area was very lightly populated, with marginal pastoral runs of sheep at low stocking rates, until
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#1732898035067144-613: The south bank of the Murray at Paringa . Before that line had been completed, the government approved a number of lines from it. These included the Peebinga railway line into the land between the new line and the Pinnaroo line, and lines to Loxton and Waikerie . Finally, the Yinkanie railway line , opened in 1925. All lines have now closed due to the declining use of railways for grain transport in
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