The Gawler Ranges are a range of mountains in South Australia to the north of Eyre Peninsula. South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country Eyre Peninsula is a triangular Peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf, the west by the Great Australian Bight The Eyre Highway skirts the south of the ranges. Location Named after Edward John Eyre the Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia. The ranges were named by Edward John Eyre after the Governor of South Australia, George Gawler in 1839. Edward John Eyre (5 August 1815 30 November 1901 was an English land explorer of the Australian continent and a controversial Governor of Jamaica. The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler, KH ( 21 July 1795 – 7 May 1869) was the second governor of South Australia. This was on one of Eyre's earlier expeditions before his famous crossing of the Nullarbor Plain further west. Edward John Eyre 's two expeditions of 1839 to the interior of South Australia were his first expeditions as an explorer if one discounts the two earlier trips he
The Gawler craton is a craton rich in mineral resources, although many are only recently discovered and not yet fully exploited. The Gawler Craton covers approximately 440000 square kilometres of central South Australia A craton ( Greek kratos / κρἀτος ( neut. "strength" is an old and stable part of the Continental crust that has survived
The Gawler Ranges National Park and Gawler Ranges Conservation Reserve are in the ranges north of Wudinna. Gawler Ranges is a national park in South Australia ( Australia) 350km north-west of Adelaide. Wudinna ( postcode 5652 is a town in South Australia. The area was first settled in 1861
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- Anon. (1973). The Gawler Ranges. Report on a suvey by the Nature Conservation Society of South Australia. NCSSA: Adelaide.