Beltana
Australia /
South Australia /
Port Augusta /
World
/ Australia
/ South Australia
/ Port Augusta
village, abandoned / shut down, ghost town
Beltana is a semi-ghost town 540 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia. Beltana is known for continuing to exist long after the reasons for its existence had ceased. The town's history began in the 1870s with the advent of copper mining in the area, construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line and The Ghan railroad and began to decline in 1941 with the beginning of coal mining at Leigh Creek. The fortune of the town was sealed by the 1983 realignment of the main road away from the town. The town, adjacent cemetery and railway structures are now part of a designated State Heritage Area declared in 1987.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltana
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Coordinates: 30°48'44"S 138°24'45"E
- Leigh Creek 25 km
- Silverton , NSW 291 km
- Wanaaring 565 km
- Yowah 680 km
- Stonehenge 865 km
- Noonbah Station, QLD 883 km
- Isisford 941 km
- Blackall , QLD 994 km
- Muttaburra 1099 km
- Jericho , QLD 1107 km
- Lake Torrens National Park 65 km
- Flinders Ranges National Park 76 km
- Bunkers Conservation Reserve 77 km
- Flinders Ranges 85 km
- Ediacara Hills 107 km
- Yappala Indigenous Protected Area 111 km
- Lake Frome 129 km
- Bimbowrie Conservation Park 220 km
- Strzelecki Regional Reserve 230 km
- Boolcoomatta Conservation Reserve 240 km