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Farina, abandoned outback railway town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1930s surface context, ruins, railway refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Optimistically named wheat town of the 1880s on the Ghan line that the desert defeated; stone ruins on a pastoral station, now conserved by volunteers.

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