Oodnadatta

Oodnadatta is a small community in South Australia with about 270 inhabitants in the Simpson Desert.

Location

The place is located 1011 km from Adelaide and is only accessible by dirt roads, either of Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta Track from Marree on or by Marla. These slopes can be used only with four-wheel vehicles after rainfall.

History

The area where the location is situated, belongs utmadata the Aboriginal tribe of the Arrernte. The first Europeans who came to this area in 1859 was John McDouall Stuart.

The place was originally a storage place for camel transport on the way to Alice Springs and then known as the Angle Pole. This was derived from a sharp bend of the road, which followed the caravans coming this far was from the south rather to the west and now an almost right-angled bend ( Angel) made ​​to the north. This point was marked with a rod ( pole ). When the Great Northern Railway reached the site in 1890, it received its present name.

The railway, a narrow gauge line, the Ghan sailed, was extended in 1929 to Alice Springs. She was decommissioned in 1981, when the central Australian standard gauge railway was opened further west. The train station of Oodnadatta was also known as Goat stop because wandered freely in place many goats.

Worth knowing

The place is now a meeting place for the Aboriginal people and tourists. Most important point is the so-called Pink Roadhouse, which are Oodnadatta Roadhouse to buy the fuel, food and other goods and canoes can be ordered and mail can be received.

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

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