Welcome to Aranitnit Traditional Cache
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A quick drive-by that is wheelchair accessible with room to pull off the highway.
A little history
Tintinara is located 191 km south-east of Adelaide and 18 metres above sea level on the road between Murray Bridge and Bordertown. It is located on the edge of a desert area which starts with the Little Desert in western Victoria and sweeps west to include Ngarkat and Mount Rescue Conservation Parks.
The area was settled in the 1840s when graziers moved into the district with substantial flocks of sheep. The 'Tintinara' homestead, including the woolshed and outbuildings, dates from this period.
No one knows how the town got its name. One body of opinion argues that 'tin-tin-yara' was an Aboriginal term used to describe the group of stars Europeans know as Orion's Belt. This explanation, first proposed in 1841, claims that it had the meaning of 'a group of youths who hunt kangaroos and emus on the great celestial plain'.
A more prosaic, but no less fascinating, explanation was published in The Register in 1919. It told the story: 'We had a smart young blackfellow in our employ, with a name that sounded like Tin Tin. We liked the sound of it, and when choosing a name for the [pastoral] station, we put 'ara' at the end of it, and made Tintinara of it. Tin Tin was of the Coorong tribe, and in his white moleskin trousers, blue shirt and cabbage-tree hat, was worth looking at.
There is room to pull off clear of the highway but trucks travel past here at 110kph. A quick drive-by to stretch the legs even for just a few minutes.
You are looking for a nano cache so a writing tool will be required.
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Gbb rnfl sbe n uvag
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