Yorke Peninsula Attractions

Heritage & Landmarks
Wallaroo's long heritage has left a fabulous legacy of fascinating old buildings, houses, churches and the ruins of the once famous copper smelters...

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Heritage & Landmarks
Costing a total of 11,000 Pounds to build, Althorpe Island's Lighthouse was made out of a mixture of limestone and hard sandstone quarried from the Island...

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Gallery & Museums
When Ardrossan folk talk of the sea they look to the land. And amidst the agricultural machinery in the Ardrossan Museum you will see why...

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Sports & Recreation
The Ardrossan Golf Club is an 18 hole course with a par 69 and has an Australian course rating of 64...

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Entertainment, Gallery & Museums
Located in Kadina's main street, the cultural centre serves the Copper Coast community with performing and visual art activities...

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Sports & Recreation
Located just over 100 kilometres north of the city of Adelaide and three kilometres east of the lower north township of Balaklava...

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Experience a fully working farm, see farm animals including donkeys, horses, sheep, cows, chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, rabbits, dogs, cats and fauna rescue animals...

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Food & Wine, Zoos, Sanctuaries & Aquariums
Ballywire offers quality, wholesome dining at affordable prices.Producing its own meat, vegetables and eggs, Ballywire is a 'dining-out must' when you visit southern Yorke Peninsula...

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Gallery & Museums, Heritage & Landmarks
Visit Australia's only private museum of money and banking to see nearly 3,000 money boxes, five rooms packed with banking and money memorabilia including a working vault wallpapered with sheets of uncut notes, and more than 60,000 new coins and 50 gold...

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Gallery & Museums, Heritage & Landmarks
At the Bublacowie Museum you'll find medals, uniforms and memorabilia, as well as the very personal photographs and memorabilia of local servicemen and women who served their country in all major conflicts...

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Food & Wine, Parks & Gardens, Shopping
Bute Hobbies Bromeliad Display Gardens and Sales Centre welcomes individual and family groups interested in seeing our three shade houses which house more than 1400 different Bromeliads...

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Food & Wine
Beef and Chicken Schnitzels, Seafood, and Porterhouse and Rump Steak Wednesday to Sunday, plus an extensive menu on Saturday nights...

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Heritage & Landmarks
Butler Memorial was officially re-opened on Sunday 6 August 1989.The hangar style building houses the famous World War One Bristol Fighter Aeroplane the Red Devil, believed to be the only one left anywhere in the world, flown in France and Australia...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Natural, Parks & Gardens
Easily accessed through Innes National Park, a short walk takes you to the tower itself with a magnificent view overlooking Althorpe Island and on a clear day all the way across to Kangaroo Island...

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Gallery & Museums, Shopping
The gallery features art works by artist in residence Patricia Brereton including watercolours, pen-wash and pastels plus pen and pencil sketches of old buildings of the Flinders Ranges and flowers...

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Food & Wine
Build it and they will come...The Wallaroo Marina Hotel and the two adjacent five story accommodation towers are the last part of the stunning Copper Cove Marina development...

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Heritage & Landmarks
Completed in 1882 and made of limestone, quarried from a nearby farm. De-manned in 1920, the light continued to shine until 11 December 1942, when a Japanese invasion was feared and it was turned off for several weeks...

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Food & Wine, Shopping
The Curramulka General Store is a relaxed casual café to sit and enjoy a light homemade meal. There is artwork to admire and giftware to browse through, or just enjoy a coffee and cookie for morning tea...

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Have you or your family ever cuddled a day-old foal, or walked among inquisitive older foals on a thoroughbred horse stud? Would you like to learn about the rearing and education of young horses?Learn about how mares are transported all over Australia...

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Sports & Recreation
The Edithburgh Golf Club is a Par 77, nine hole 5,598 metre course and has an Australian Course Rating of 67...

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Gallery & Museums
Edithburgh Museum is a community museum of well defined indoor and outdoor displays tracing the social, industrial and agricultural history of the Troubridge agricultural area and the town and port of Edithburgh from early settlement to its decline with...

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Gallery on the Bay features paintings by local artist Peter Ruch. These include watercolours, pastels and charcoal drawings of local scenes and portraits...

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Food & Wine, Wineries/Breweries
Barley Stacks is the first commercial vineyard to be established in the traditional barley belt of the Yorke Peninsula, renowned for growing the world’s best malting barley...

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Gallery & Museums, Shopping
Harvest Corner is a unique combination of visitor information and high quality locally produced craft...

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Natural, Parks & Gardens, Scenic
Hillocks Drive embraces several miles of spectacular, rugged coastline interspersed with quiet, sandy beaches and rock pools, a photographer's delight and a haven from the pressures of city living...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Natural, Other...
Looking for a holiday tip from a local? Yorke Peninsula is where South Australians love to holiday and Innes National Park is the jewel in the peninsula’s crown...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Natural, Zoos, Sanctuaries & Aquariums
Discover the shipwrecks of the Investigator Strait Maritime Heritage Trail. Between 1849 and 1982, 26 vessels are known to have been wrecked in the waters, with the loss of more than 70 lives...

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Sports & Recreation
Kadina Golf course is a par 72, 5851 metres and has an Australian course rating 68. Ladies golf day is on Tuesdays and the men's golf day is on Wednesday and Saturdays...

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Heritage & Landmarks
Enjoy a tourist train ride operated by the Lions Club of Yorke Peninsula Rail Inc from Wallaroo - Kadina - Bute and return to Wallaroo...

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Gallery & Museums
Located in Ellen Street, walking distance from the Moonta shopping precinct in the School of Mines, the Resource Centre houses a comprehensive collection of local and family history resource documents including local and State newspapers on microfilm...

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Parks & Gardens, Sports & Recreation
The Maitland Golf Club is an 18-hole course with a 69 Par Men’s, 72 Par Ladies and Australian Course Rating of 65...

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Gallery & Museums
Maitland Museum contains relics of a bygone era, showcasing local history, agricultural machinery, German heritage and more...

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Entertainment, Food & Wine
Take the time out to enjoy lunch from 12.00 noon to 2.00pm; and dinner from 6.00pm to 8.00pm with daily meal specials starting from AUD8...

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Heritage & Landmarks
The National Trust Miners Cottage is a typical Cornish cottage built about 1870 and furnished in the pre-1900 period...

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Sports & Recreation
Located 197 kilometres west of Adelaide and 88 metres above sea level, Minlaton is the main service centre for the surrounding rural districts...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Natural, Scenic
Minlaton Walk starts at the Visitor Information Centre and heads north along the Main Street to the H J Cook Fauna Park, which contains emus, wallabies and kangaroos...

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Sports & Recreation
The Moonta Golf Club is an 18 hole, 5,401 metre Par 70 course with an Australian Course Rating of 67...

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Gallery & Museums, Heritage & Landmarks
The museum is located in the former Moonta Mines Model School. Erected in 1878, this building now houses thematic displays on the Cornish miners' lifestyles - mining, lodges and friendly societies, sports and pastimes, death and hardship; extensive displays...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Scenic
This state heritage area covers most of the former Moonta Mining Company lease. A tourist drive starting from the Moonta Town Hall leads through the Cornish cottages housing area, passes the church, Hughes Pump House ruins, Taylor’s shaft, the deepest...

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Food & Wine, Shopping
Moonta Mines Sweet Shop is located in the former Moonta Mines Post Office built in 1946 and operated as a Post Office until the mid 1970s...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Other
A 50 minute round trip by narrow gauge rail, passes the reservoir and ore sorting floors then through a tunnel in Ryan's Tailings Heap...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Other
The Moonta Mines Walking Trails help you discover the history of this copper mining region via three marked trails...

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Heritage & Landmarks
This beautiful old building was erected by Gambling and Son of Adelaide and opened in 1909. It replaced an old timber and iron station, which was erected in 1878...

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Food & Wine
For a unique farm experience visit Orrie Cowie Merino and Poll Merino Stud, situated 10 kilometres north west of Warooka on the beautiful Yorke Peninsula...

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Palate 2 Palette is located in the main street of Port Broughton just metres from the beach and jetty...

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Gallery & Museums, Shopping
Point Turton Ceramic Art is a small gallery specialising in unique and unusual, high quality ceramic art...

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Heritage & Landmarks, Scenic, Zoos, Sanctuaries & Aquariums
The history of Port Broughton is revealed as you walk around this small town filled with history. Along the way visit historic landmarks, such as the Old Railway Station (1876), the Heritage Centre (1892), the fully restored “Cottage" (1898)...

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Heritage & Landmarks
Situated in the Parlour Rooms of the majestic Port Broughton Hotel, the Port Broughton Visitor Centre offers tourist information and a relaxing reading room; or stop for while and have a chat to one of the friendly local volunteers...

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Gallery & Museums
The Port Victoria Museum is a small museum that tells great stories of the sea. From this port the last of the windjammers sailed to Europe in the late 1940s...

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Natural, Parks & Gardens, Scenic...
Port Vincent Walking Trails include:A one and a half kilometre trail leaves Marine Parade for shoreline walk to 126 steps with handrail leading to Golf Course Road...

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