Old Telegraph Station Eucla Western Australia.
Old Telegraph Station Eucla Western Australia.
The telegraph line is regarded as one of the most important innovations in the 19th century. Before the telegraph came, communication between Western Australia and the rest of the nations took months, but when the Eucla telegraph line and manual repeater station were established in 1877, Whilst wandering around the ruins, tune into the supernatural, as the area is said to be haunted by a ghost.
Take a photograph of this constantly changing landmark before it disappears under the ever-encroaching white sand dunes. Now it is little more than a few old stonewalls protruding above the moving dunes. I hope the supernatural spirits catch the mongrels that make the mess at the Telegraph Station.
Please remember do the right thing and only leave footprints and only take Photo’s with your memories.
Old Telegraph Station Eucla Western Australia
credits to jim for the video randallmac vk3rm cheers.
Old Eucla Telegraph Station
Located about 10 kilometres from the Western and South Australian borders,. this was one of many manual repeater stations between Adelaide and Perth but it is now being buried by the moving sand dunes.
Nullarbor Eucla - Old Telegraph Station
We stopped at Eucla and then checked out the old Eucla Telegraph Station buried in sand.
Telegraph Station Ruins - Eucla Western Australia
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Old Telegraph Station, Eucla, WA
Driving Across Australia Eucla National Park & Telegraph Station West Australia 27 4 09
Eucla National Park & Telegraph Station West Australia
Eucla
Checking out Eucla Western Australia and the old telegraph station ruins.
Border Village South Australia to Eucla Western Australia. 1 of 2
Leaving the camp site (Caravan Park) at Border Village SA going through the quarantine check. Your not allowed to take honey into WA. On to Eucla and a look at the old ruined Telegraph Station.
Old Peake Telegraph Station Ruins SA
An extract from the first episode of the Trip series showing the ruins of The Old Peake Telegraph Station in outback South Australia and the trail leading from the ruins back to the Oodnadatta track. The Old Peake Telegraph Station ruins are located approximately 111km north of William Creek and about 16kms down a goat trail leading off the Oodnadatta track. The remains of the main building are still fairly well intact and provide the perfect spot for an overnight stay.
EVPs at the Eucla Telegraph Station
EVP Anomalies Captured at the Reportedly Haunted Old Telegraph Station Ruins in Eucla, West Australia
Daily Road Trip Vlog | Lots of snakes! Nullabor caves, Eucla telegraph station and jetty
Day two of the daily video challenge as we head for the Adelaide 4WD & Adventure show. Today we decide to explore some Nullabor caves, and check out old Eucla including the old Eucla telegraph station and jetty. And we see lots of snakes along the way!
Dick Kimber at the Old Telegraph Station
The Jetty at Eucla Western Australia!
This is a quick vid of the jetty at Eucla, Western Australia. A couple of mates travelled there from either end of Aus and met at Eucla to have a great time of catching up after 15yrs of talking over Teamspeak while gaming most night but had never met in person due to distance.
EUCLA WA WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
History
In 1841, Edward John Eyre became the first explorer to visit the area. In 1867, the president of the Marine Board of South Australia discovered a port at Eucla,[1] and in 1870, John Forrest camped at the location for nearly two weeks. In 1873, land was taken up at Moopina Station near the present townsite, and work commenced on a telegraph line from Albany to Adelaide. Land was set aside at Eucla for the establishment of a manual repeater station, and when the telegraph line opened in 1877, Eucla was one of the most important telegraph stations on the line. The station was important as a conversion point because South Australia and Victoria used American Morse code (locally known as the Victorian alphabet) while Western Australia used the international Morse code that is familiar today.[2] A jetty and tram line were also constructed for offloading supplies brought in by sea. The town was proclaimed a township and gazetted in 1885, and reached its peak in the 1920s, prior to the construction of a new telegraph line further north alongside the Trans-Australian Railway in 1929.[3]
Telegraph StationIn the 1890s a rabbit plague passed through the area and ate much of the Delisser Sandhills' dune vegetation, thus destabilising the dune system and causing large sand drifts to encroach on the townsite. The original town was abandoned, and a new townsite established about 5 km to the east and higher up on the escarpment. The ruins of the telegraph station still stand amongst the dunes, and are a local tourist attraction.
Many of the pioneer farmers and telegraph operators were buried at Eucla, but as the sand dunes encroached onto their graves, some of the headstones and plaques were removed and can now be seen at the museum at Eucla.
In 1971, world-wide media publicity came to the town after reports and photographs emerged of a half-naked blonde girl who had gone wild and lived and ran with the kangaroos, who came to be known as the Nullarbor Nymph. The story subsequently turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the residents of the tiny settlement.[4
DON PUGH
The Koonalda Homestead (Old Eyre Highway - South Australia)
Koonalda was a sheep station situated just off the Old Eyre Highway some 100 kilometres west of the Nullarbor Roadhouse in South Australia. From the mid 1950's up until the mid 1970's Koonalda Homestead was a fuel & rest stop for those people travelling the Nullarbor during that period. As the Homestead adjoined the Old Eyre Highway (north of the new bitumen highway) a large car graveyard developed alongside it from vehicles that did not make it across the Nullarbor Plain. When I first travelled it there was 612 miles of unmade appallingly bad road across what is one of the largest limestone plains in the world.
Nearby Koonalda Cave enabled the Gurney family to establish the sheep station as it provided an underground water supply. The homestead has a wide surrounding verandah and a recently replaced galvanised iron roof. The interior has seven main rooms, a bathroom & a laundry area on the enclosed rear verandah. A large concrete water tank adjoins the eastern side of the homestead. Sleepers from the Trans Australia Railway near Cook were used to build the homestead's outside walls & fences. The sleepers were transported 20 at a time on a small truck to 'Koonalda'. The timber windows & some of the doors are re-used material from the old telegraph station (periodically covered by sand dunes) at Eucla. This is a rare example of World War II construction in the outback. The movie show the main car graveyard; there is another about half as big nearby to the east.
Day 2 - first day of the Nullabor and Eucla
And officially the most expensive duel in Australia is in Balladonia
AOR Peake Telegraph Repeater Station & Copper Mine
AOR Peake Telegraph Repeater Station & Copper Mine along the Oodnadatta Track SA.
Border Village South Australia to Eucla Western Australia 2 of 2
Walking around the old Telegraph Station at Eucla Western Australia.
Perth to Eucla WA
Perth to Eucla WA - Caravanning around Australia with kids