Everything about Ooldea South Australia totally explained
Ooldea is a tiny settlement in
South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the
Nullarbor Plain, 863 km west of
Port Augusta on the
Trans-Australian Railway. Ooldea is 143 km from the bitumen
Eyre Highway.
It was the site of a mission for
Aboriginal children which was visited twice by
Norman Tindale and was home for many years to
Daisy Bates, both concerned with understanding and protecting Aboriginal culture.
Ooldea was an important camp during construction of the railway, as it's near a permanent waterhole, first discovered by Europeans when
Ernest Giles used it in
1875. It was also important as the railway siding servicing the
nuclear testing at
Maralinga.
Longest straight
The longest dead straight starts west of Ooldea before
Watson at the 797 km
and continues to between
Loongana and
Nurina, a distance of 478 km.
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