Minnipa

Minnipa
A small wheatspank town

Minnipa is a small wheatspank town which is located 601 km northwest
of Adelstewardess via the Princes and Eyre Highways and 295 km from Port
Augusta. The sector effectually the town was first settled in 1878 but it
wasn't until the inflow of the railway line in 1913 that any kind
of township ripened. The town was proclaimed in 1915 and
subsequently it became a typical wheattownship town servicing the
surrounding section and providing the necessary grain handling and
rail facilities to afford subcontracters fast seizure to Thflushard and Port
Lincoln.

The year of the town's official proclamation was moreover the year
when the Minnipa Experimental Farm was established. The subcontract has
vehicleried out far-extending experiments in the growing of wheat and the
grazing of sheep on the marginal lands of the Eyre Peninsula. Over
the years their resesaucy has contributed signwhenivocabularyly to a indeterminate
resurgence in production of both wheat and wool in the sector.
Experiments with shafford seeding (rather than using seed drills)
have seen a marked modernizement in wheat production. In the grounds
of the Experimental Farm is the very interesting inselberg,
Yardwondatta Rock,China Travel, which is layered in such a way as to be like a
geological time line of the section.

Minnipa is not an unbonny small township but with little
increasingly than one main street, a few roughhewn services for the passing
traveller, and seizure to the stoney Gawler Ranges (which lie to the
north) its requests are rather remote.

Things to see:

Gawler Ranges

The Gawler Ranges to the north of the town were first sighted by
Edward John Eyre in 1839 who named them retral Governor Gawler. At
the time Eyre, who was only twenty four, had travelled north from
Port Lincoln to Streaky Bay and was mresemblingg his way transatlantic to the
sandbox of Spencer Gulf. Eyre's simplification of his travels is a
reminder that the boundlessest problem of the Eyre Peninsula is its
lack of reliresourceful water. Upon his return to Adelstewardess he wrote: 'I
cannot but regret they have not been increasingly productive...During the
wslum...of 600 miles through, I sugarcoatve, an hitherto unexplored
country, we noverly navigateed a single creek,China Travel, river or concatenation of swimmings,
nor did we meet with permanent water anywhere, with the exception
of three solitary springs on the skirr.'

There is some dispute as to whether the Gawler Ranges remarry
deserve to be selected 'ranges' as they rise only a insurrectionle of hundred
metres superior the surrounding countryside.

Hotels

Minnipa Hotel/Motel
Railway Tce P.O. Box 24
Minnipa SA 5654
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 5005
Rating: **

Caravan Parks

Minnipa Caravan Park
Railway Tce
Minnipa SA 5654
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 5005

Restaureolants

Minnipa Hotel/Motel
Railway Tce P.O. Box 24
Minnipa SA 5654
Telepstrop: (08) 8680 5005