Oodnadatta

Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta

State :	Australia Australia
State :	South Australia

Coordinates :	27 ° 33 ′ S , 135 ° 27 ′ E Coordinates: 27 ° 33 ′ S , 135 ° 27 ′ E-27.546529 135.447026 112
Height :	112 m
Area :	61,910 km²

Residents :	204 (2016)
Population density :	0.003 inhabitants per km²

Time zone :

ACST (UTC + 9: 30)

Oodnadatta

Sign of the Oodnadatta Track

Oodnadatta is a small town in South Australia with about 204 inhabitants in the Simpson Desert .

location

The site is 1011 kilometers from Adelaide and is only accessible on dirt roads, either from Coober Pedy , from Marree on the Oodnadatta Track, or from Marla . These slopes can only be used with four-wheel drive vehicles after rainfall .

history

The area on which the place is located belongs to the Aboriginal tribe of the Arrernte utmadata. The first European to come to the area was John McDouall Stuart in 1859 .

The place was initially a camp for camel transports on the way to Alice Springs and was then known as Angle Pole . This was derived from a sharp bend in the route followed by the caravans , which, coming from the south up to this point, ran more in a westerly direction and now made an almost right-angled bend (angel) to the north. This point was marked with a pole (pole). When the Great Northern Railway reached the place in 1890, it got its current name.

The railway line, a narrow-gauge line that The Ghan used , was extended to Alice Springs in 1929 . It was shut down in 1981 when the standard gauge Central Australian Railway opened further west. Oodnadatta train station was also known as the Goat Halt , as there were many goats roaming free in the village.

Worth knowing

The place is now a meeting place for Aborigines and tourists. The most important point of contact is the so-called Pink Roadhouse , the Oodnadatta Roadhouse , where fuel , food and other goods can be bought, canoes can be ordered and mail can be received.

In Oodnadatta on January 2, 1960 the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia was measured at 50.7 ° C.

There is also a museum in the reception building of the former train station .

literature

Basil Fuller: The Ghan - The Story of the Alice Springs Railway . Sydney 1975. ND 2003. ISBN 9781741108064 .

Web links

Commons : Oodnadatta, South Australia - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Oodnadatta ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
^ Fuller, p. 241.
^ Fuller, pp. 186, 241.
^ Fuller, p. 247.
↑ Lake Eyre , a salt lake about 200 kilometers away, has a few spots that are not encrusted with salt, but it only fills with water to form a lake every decades, so the canoe rental is surprising.
↑ In Cloncurry in Queensland on January 16, 1889, the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia was recorded at 53.1 ° C. Since the measurement methods, which were then still very imprecise and inadequate, are now in doubt, it is assumed that the temperature was around 49 ° C.

[ABS-1] Australian Bureau of Statistics : Oodnadatta ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.

[2] Fuller, p. 241.

[3] Fuller, pp. 186, 241.

[4] Fuller, p. 247.

[5] Lake Eyre , a salt lake about 200 kilometers away, has a few spots that are not encrusted with salt, but it only fills with water to form a lake every decades, so the canoe rental is surprising.

[6] In Cloncurry in Queensland on January 16, 1889, the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia was recorded at 53.1 ° C. Since the measurement methods, which were then still very imprecise and inadequate, are now in doubt, it is assumed that the temperature was around 49 ° C.