| LOCATION |
| Map |
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| Address |
BELTANA |
| Locality |
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| Accuracy |
H - high level confidence |
| Council Area |
Land Not Within a Council Area (Flinders) |
| Polygon Type |
D - item has been digitised (generally because it doesn't exist in a DCDB parcel, eg. bridge |
| DESCRIPTION |
| Details (Known As) |
Beltana State Heritage Area |
| Registered Name |
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| Significance |
The Beltana State Heritage Area (Beltana) is a service town that demonstrates the expansion of primary industries, notably pastoralism and copper mining, into the Far North of South Australia and the establishment of transport, communications and services to support those activities and outback communities. Beltana was surveyed in 1873 and developed rapidly after 1881 due to the arrival of the railway. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1880s to 1950s), Beltana was a base for Afghan cameleers, the site of one of three repeater stations for the Overland Telegraph Line in South Australia, provided a station on the Great Northern Railway. It was also the base of the Australian Inland Mission, founded by the Presbyterian Church, which provided welfare and health services to people living in the outback. Beltana comprises the township, cemetery and dispersed buildings, structures and ruins that demonstrate the growth of settlement into South Australia's far north. |
| Subject Index |
Urban area - State Heritage Area [Urban] |
| Class |
State Her Area |
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| STATUS |
| Status Code |
SHA - State Heritage Area (SA Heritage Act 1978) |
| Status Date |
16-JUL-1987 |
| REFERENCE |
| LGA |
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| State Heritage ID |
13886 |
| Heritage Number |
27548 |
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| SECTION 16 INFORMATION |
| Section 16 |
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| PLAN PARCEL & TITLE |
| As listed in the SA Heritage Register |
| Plan Parcel & Title Information |
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