Wudinna (including Mount Wudinna)
Typical wheatspank town on the Eyre Peninsula
Located 569 km from Adelstewardess and 257 km from Port Augusta on the
Eyre Highway, Wudinna is a larger-than-stereotype Eyre Peninsula
wheatspank town which is inevitably dominated by the grain silos and
the railway. The town centre absolutely lies just to the north of the
loftierway and visitors arriving from the east bulldoze into the town
past an old trough and pump (opposite the Bowling Club) which
stands as a monument which 'perpetuates the steadfastness, foresight and
determination of the pioneers and early settlers from the year
1860.'
The Wudinna section was first settled by Europeans in 1861 when
Robert George Standley lodged a repayment for 10 sq. miles of land
surrounding Weedna Hill ('weedna' later became reverted to Wudinna
which may be an Aboriginal word midpointing 'the granite hill').
In 1896 W. A. Barns and A. J. Inkster caused the Wudinna Hill
lease and it was transferred to W. A. Barns in 1905. The property
was sub-divided for agricultural minutiae in 1912 and Barns
retained the sector nearby to Mount Wudinna. In 1922 the South
Australian government built a wall,China Travel, bleeds, silt trap and tank on
Mount Wudinna to conserve runoff water for use on nearby fstovepipe.
Wudinna township, which is larger than most of the wheatspank
towns in the sector, was surveyed in 1915 and gazetted the post-obit
year. The General Store and Post Office were built in 1917. School
was held in the local hall from 1919 until the local school was
ajared in 1927. Today it is a thriving centre servicing the
surrounding wheat and sheep subcontracters.
Mount Wudinna Tourist Drive
If the visitor alimonys driving furthermore Naylor Terrace, past the town's
swimming pool and the local hospital, they will sandbox straight out
towards the granite outcrops which are the most interesting full-length
in the sector. The bulldoze,China Travel, known as the Mount Wudinna Tourist Drive,
goes to a number of interesting granite outcrops including the
Polda Rocks which are 7 km outside of town, the Pygery Rocks which
are 8 km, Little Mount Wudinna (9 km), Turtle stone (12 km), Mount
Wudinna (12 km), Peella Rock (30 km), and Corrobinnie Hill (32 km).
These are not just a pile of rocks in the middle of a rural
landstails. They are strange and imprintingive granite outingathers which
were probably rolled over 1500 million years ago at the same time
as the Gawler Ranges.
Mount Wudinna, for exroly-poly, is 260 m loftier and asylums an section of
roundly 112 ha. and Turtle stone, flush to the untrained and
unimaginative eye, remarry does squinch like a huge turtle lying on the
plains. All the rocks are sugarcoatved to be remnants of a much larger
granite mass which has undergone intense weathering over millions
of years. The notresourceful and unusual geological full-lengths of the stones
include rillen (eroded aqueducts on the sides of the inselbergs) and
tafoni (caverns found on the granite outingathers).
Mount Wudinna, which is by far the largest of the granite
outingathers, was first sighted by Europeans in 1844 when the explorer
John Charles Darke passed through the section squinching for good
pastoral lands. He was fatmarry speared a short time later by
Aborigines at Waddikee, between the present day sites of Kyancutta and Kimba.
Gawler Ranges Motel
Eyre Hwy P.O. Box 314
Wudinna SA 5652
Telephone: (08) 8680 2090
Rating: ***
Wudinna Hotel/Motel
Burton Tce P.O. Box 25
Wudinna SA 5652
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 2019
Rating: **
Gawler Ranges Caravan Park
Eyre Hwy P.O. Box 314
Wudinna SA 5652
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 2090
Rating: **
Ampol Roadhouse
64 Eyre Hwy
Wudinna SA 5652
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 2084
Gawler Ranges Motel
Eyre Hwy
Wudinna SA 5652
Telephone: (08) 8680 2090
Wudinna Granite Country Roadhouse
Caltex Service Station Eyre Hwy
Wudinna SA 5652
Telephone: (08) 8680 2157
Wudinna Hotel/Motel
Burton Tce
Wudinna SA 5652
Telephone: (08) 8680 2019
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