My final park for Thursday 11th April 2024 was the Pinkawillinie Reservoir Conservation Reserve VKFF-1740. The reserve is located about 36 km northwest of Kimba and about 499 km from Adelaide.
Above:- Map showing the location of Pinkawillinie Reservoir Conservation Reserve. Map c/o Google Maps.
Pinkawillinie is a corruption of the Aboriginal word pingknoweileni meaning ‘place of many rabbit-footed bandicoot burrows’.
From 1863 Gregory Hawson (b. 1823. d. 1885) held the ‘Pinkawillinie Run’. He emigrated to Australia with his parents Henry Hawson and Elizabeth Emlyn Hawson nee Cowell in 1839 from England aboard their own ship Abeona. They were among the first settlers on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. They took up 6,000 acres of land including current day Port Lincoln and built their first homestead at Kirton Point. Gregory Hawson took up land north of Kirton Point and established the Polda sheep station at Mount Wedge. (History Trust 2024)
Above:- Gregory Hawson. Image c/o State Library South Australia.
The Hundred of Pinkawillinie was proclaimed on the 1st day of June 1922. In 1926 the Pinkawillinie School was opened. It closed in 1968. The Pinkawillinie South School opened in 1930 and closed in 1947. (Place Names 2012)
Above:- Article from the News Adelaide, Wed 24 Apr 1929. Image c/o Trove
The northern boundary for the Pinkawillinie Reservoir Conservation Reserve is Buckleboo Hundred Line Road. The southern part of the park is accessed via Pinkawillinie Reservoir Road which runs off Johnson Road.
Above:- Aerial view of the Pinkawillinie Reservoir Conservation Reserve. Image c/o Google Earth.
The reserve is about 279 hectares in size and was established on the 14th day of May 1987. (CAPAD 2022)
After the activation I visited the site of the old Pinkawillinie school (1926-1968)
Above:- The Pinkawillinie School. Image c/o Kimba Konnections Facebook.
It was starting to get dark and as I travelled back to Kimba I enjoyed watching a magnificent sunset.
Once back in Kimba I headed to the Kimba Hotel and enjoyed another very nice meal and some refreshments.
I worked the following stations on 20m SSB:-
- VK2HAK
- VK3ANL
- VK3SQ
- VK2BD
- VK3CMA/p (Whroo Natural Features Reserve VKFF-2229)
- VK1AO
- VK2MET
- KG5CIK
- VK2WE
- VK3CWF
- VK2VW
- VK2HFI
- VK2AKA
- VK2BUG
- VK3DL
- ON3UA
- VK3PF
- VK3KAI
- OH2CGU
- VK5NFT
- DH4PSG
- VK3VIN
- VK3APJ
- VK1DI
- OH6GAZ
- KG8P
- DL5EBG
- IW2BNA
- IK1GPG
- OM5TX
- VK4HAT
- VK3SX
- F6EOC
- VK3EJ
- OH1MM
- ON4VT
- VK4SMA
- F4ILH
- VK4EMP
- VK4TI
- VK6MU
- VK3CQC
- VK3UAO
- VK3CEO
- VK3BNC
- DL2ND
- JF7RJM
- VK5QA
- VK3CLD
- VK2EXA
- VK4NH
- VK4DXA
- VK4XRC
- VK5AYL
I worked the following stations on 40m SSB:-
- VK4HAT
- VK3PF
- VK3EJ
- VK5HS
- VK5AAF
- VK5FR/m
- VK3CEO
- VK5FANA
- VK5JDS
- VK5LA
- VK5KAW
- VK5MAZ
- VK5IS
- VK5KPR
- VK5DW
- VK5TUX
- VK3APJ
- VK3BBB
- VK2CCP
- VK5TC/m
- VK4JM
- VK3SPG
- VK3ATA
- VK5SFA
- VK2CDB
- VK5GY
- VK5KLV
- VK3SMW
- VK5AYL
- VK1AO
- VK21MET
- VK3NFS
- VK3DL
- VK4KD
- VK5AMH/m
- VK3QH
- VK2IO/p (Caniambo Nature Conservation Reserve VKFF-2059)
- VK4EMP
- VK4TI
- VK2MPT
- VK3SX
- VK4NH
- VK4DXA
- VK3HJW
- VK2COS
- VK4PDX
- VK4SMA
- VK3VIN
- VK6LTC
- VK3UAO
- VK3BSF
- VK1CHW
- VK1MA
- VK7WUU
- VK3PWG
References.
- Dcceew.gov.au. (2023). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2022 – DCCEEW. [online] Available at: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad/2022.
- History Trust. (n.d.). Portrait of Gregory Hawson. [online] Available at: https://collections.history.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/34585?keywords= [Accessed 30 May 2024].
- published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au. (n.d.). A Compendium of the Place Names of South Australia. [online] Available at: https://published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/placenamesofsouthaustralia/ [Accessed 30 May 2024].
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