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NARACOORTE South Australia 29 March - 31 March
Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Fossil Site
This country town some 330 km south-east of Adelaide and 63 metres above sea level. NARACOORTE is derived from an Aboriginal word has ranged from Gnanga-kurt to Nanna-coorta, Narcoot, Nancoota, Narricourt, Narcoota, Narracoorte and Naracoorte. meaning 'large waterhole' .
Before European settlement it is believed the Meintangk Aborigines lived in the area. Unimpressed with the arrival of Europeans and continued to fight for their land well into the 1860s and 1870s. In fact it was as the result of a stock raid by Aborigines, and a party of Europeans searching for the lost stock, that the Naracoorte Caves were first discovered.
The area was settled in 1842 by the pioneer squatter George Ormerod. Two years later in 1845 William MacIntosh, a prosperous Scot who owned most of the land around the site of the present township, decided to establish a township. We stayed at William Macintosh Motor Lodge Naracoorte, named after him.
In spite of these developments Naracoorte developed slowly. Local government was proclaimed in 1870 when the town had a population of around 900.
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