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Population: 2660, Height above sea level: 99 Latitude: 36.21.00 Longitude: 140.45.00 Location: 270km south east of Adelaide Highway: Dukes Hwy (8) Nearest Major Town: Adelaide Nearest Airport: Adelaide Touring Area: Limestone Coast - Tatiara |
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 Albino kangaroos at Bordertown. | |
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Bordertown is located on the Dukes Highway (8) 280 km. east of Adelaide and 450km.
west of Melbourne and 18km from the Victorian border. The commercial and administrative centre of the 6,476 sq. km. Tatiara District, the largest in the state, it was first settled in 1846. It takes its name from its proximity to the South Australia/Victoria state border. Cereals, wool, meat, dairy products, grapes, vegetables and small seeds are the principal rural products, and a vast underground water supply is used for irrigation. Places of interest include the wildlife sanctuary which includes a large collection of rare albino kangaroos; parks; gardens; a clay mural on the external wall of the library; the bronze bust of Australia's 24th. Prime Minister Bob Hawke (who was born in Bordertown) and the house where he lived as a child at the corner of Farquar and Binnie Sts.- now a museum. Nearby are the Clayton Farm (1872) classified by the National Trust and open Sunday to Friday from 2-5pm. and the Padthaway Homestead (1882), 42km. south at the centre of the Padthaway vineyards. Just east of the border the Little Desert National Park (Victoria) begins and stretches, south of the highway to Dimboola in Victoria, some 100 km. Popular activities include gliding, bowling, golf, swimming, squash. PLACES OF INTEREST:
INFORMATION CENTRE: Bordertown Visitor Information centre 81 North Tce, Bordertown. SA 5268 Ph: 08 8752 0700 HOW TO GET THERE: By car along the Dukes Hwy. (8) from Adelaide or Western Hwy (8) from Melbourne. The same highway changes name at the SA/VIC border, bureaucratic garbage to make life more difficult for everyone else. | ||||||||
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