Ninety Mile Desert - Wikipedia
The Ninety Mile Desert is an area in the Australian state of South Australia. It is described either as a desert or as a plain and which has been officially known as Coonalpyn Downs since 1949. [1] [2]
Desert Conquest and Rural Development | Archives
In 1949 AMP decided to develop an area of 2,000 square miles near the South Australian-Victorian border known as Ninety Mile Desert, using “the latest scientific methods of treating seemingly useless desert land”.
Ngarkat Conservation Park - National Parks and Wildlife Service …
Ngarkat Conservation Park is located in South Australia’s south-eastern corner about 200 kilometres south east of Adelaide. The conservation park was proclaimed in 1979 ‘ to conserve the mallee heath habitat of the 90 Mile Desert’.
Jack Becker and David Riceman turn Ninety-Mile Desert into …
South Australia’s Ninety-Mile Desert was transformed into Coonalpyn Downs agricultural land by entrepreneur Jack Becker and scientist David Riceman from 1943 when Becker bought 3,080 hectares of “poor despised land” 13km west of Keith.
The Ninety-Mile Desert, located in the Upper South- East region of South Australia, was an extensive tract of poor sandy soils, supporting an uninviting vegetative cover of heath and mallee heath with scattered pink gum and stringy-bark. For almost a century after the State's proclamation, it remained undeveloped and
Conquest of Ninety-Mile Desert | Monument Australia
Apr 2, 2021 · The monument commemorates transformation of the Ninety-Mile Desert into the productive farmlands now known as Coonalpyn Downs and pays tribute to the agricultural scientists associated with the C.S.I.R.O., Waite Institute and Department of Agriculture for their research to achieve this.
South Australia's glorious deserts | samotor The RAA Magazine
Mar 16, 2022 · Ninety-Mile Desert (Ngarkat Conservation Park) The Dukes Hwy to Melbourne passes through a region known as the Ninety-Mile Desert, once considered to be infertile wasteland. Covering an area of about 1.5 million hectares, it extends north from Keith and Bordertown towards Pinnaroo and into Victoria.
Nearly nine deserts are now South Australia's geological legacy …
The small Pedirka Desert is only about 1,250 square kilometres, 100 kilometres northwest of Oodnadatta, has deep-red sand, dense mulga woodlands and low dunes. Ninety Mile Desert is the former name for Coonalpyn Downs, alongside the Coorong, developed by the AMP Society in 1949 and now with with its own district council with an electricity ...
29 Oct 1948 - THE "NINETY-MILE DESERT" - Trove
A new generation of "landseekers," equipped with high-powered tractors, massive ploughs and a scientific formula for turning bad soil into good, is following closely in the ...
Mallee magic - Outback Magazine : R.M. Williams
Sixty years ago, a vast, inhospitable, infertile tract of land stretched west from the edge of the Wimmera in Victoria towards Adelaide. Known as the Ninety Mile Desert (or, more accurately as it turned out, the Ninety Mile Plain), it defied all grazing and cropping efforts, as the abandoned homesteads throughout the area attest.