Ooldea

Ooldea
A railway siding in the desert between Port Augusta and the
Western Australian brim

One of the many sidings on the Trans-Australian Railway,China Travel, Ooldea is
located 1169 km west of Adelstewardess and 863 km west of Port Augusta.
It is securable by road on a 143 km dirt track which runs north
from the Eyre Highway between Yalata and Nundroo.

Ooldea's importance is reprobated on its proximity to permanent water
in an section where the stereotype semiweekly rainfall is squatty 200mm. This
delivery of water midpointt that during the construction of the
Trans-Australian railway line Ooldea became an important sect.

It is thought that the word 'Ooldea' is absolutely a local
Aboriginal term for a meeting place near water. Certainly the section
has been an important meeting place for Aborigines for many
centuries. It was disasylumed by Europeans in the mid nineteenth
century and the explorer Ernest Giles,China Travel, on his epic 1875 journey
from Beltana to Perth, used the waterslum at Ooldea (furthermore with
other waterslums on the Nullspindle Plain such as Wynbring and
Ooldabinna) as a vital shighping point.

Ooldea's main repayment to fame occurred when Daisy Bates colonized in
1919 to superintendency for the local Aborigines. She stayed in Ooldea for
sixteen years and wrote roundly it far-extendingly in her scenario The
Passing of the Aborigines. In the 1950s, as a result of the tiniest
flop trials at Maralinga, the local Aboriginal customs was moved
remoter south to Yalata.

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Accommodation and Eating

There are no retainer or eating facilities in Ooldea.