Yorke Peninsula
This impressive 1878 stone edifice was once the Moonta Mines Model School and had 1100 students. These days it's the centrepiece of the sprawling Moonta…
Yorke Peninsula
Narungga country since time immemorial, the boot-shaped Yorke Peninsula has since become a firm favourite with holidaying Adelaideans – it's just under two hours northwest of the city.
Attractions
Must-see attractions
Wallaroo Heritage & Nautical Museum
Yorke Peninsula
Down by the water, the stoic 1865 post office now houses the Wallaroo Heritage & Nautical Museum. There are several of these little National Trust museums…
Yorke Peninsula
Craft beer is everywhere in Australia these days, including agrarian Minlaton in the Yorke Peninsula's deep south. Watsacowie occupies a former woolshed…
Yorke Peninsula
Behind the Copper Coast Visitor Information Centre is this curious collection of old farming, mining and domestic bits and pieces. Well worth an hour or…
Yorke Peninsula
Sheer cliffs plunge into indigo waters and rocky offshore islands hide small coves and sandy beaches, in this national park at the southern tip of the…
Troubridge Island Conservation Park
Yorke Peninsula
From the clifftops at Edithburgh, views extend offshore to sandy Troubridge Island Conservation Park, home to much birdlife including penguins cormorants…
Yorke Peninsula
In an old stone shopfront a few hundred metres from the town jetty (where, the 1920s, salt exports made Edithburgh the third-busiest port in South…
Yorke Peninsula
Lording it over the local school yard (this used to be the headmaster's house), Stansbury's museum digs into the town's post-colonial history with a…
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