Swan Reach, South Australia
Swan Reach Federal division(s) | Barker |
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Swan Reach is a river port in
History
Swan Reach was first settled in the 1850s and was originally the largest of five sheep and cattle stations in the area. It soon became one of the first riverboat ports in South Australia and was a loading port for grain and wool.[citation needed]
Swan Reach Mission was established by the
Around the town
Swan Reach has an area school, hotel and bottle shop, general store and post office, an op shop that opens Mondays to Fridays and Saturday mornings, and a fast food take-away shop near the ferry. The tourist boat Proud Mary and paddle-wheeler PS Murray Princess stop at the town once a week. There is a Lutheran church, with regular services, and a Lutheran pastor in residence. Anglican and Roman Catholic services are held monthly. Tourism, agriculture and irrigated horticulture are the main industries, and there is a large almond processing plant 1.5 km from town on the Stott Highway.
River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve
The Swan Reach Conservation Park lies in a 3,200-square-kilometre (1,200 sq mi)
A multi-million-dollar joint project between Silentium Defence and the Western Sydney University to build a space domain awareness observatory to monitor satellites and other objects orbiting the Earth was announced in June 2020. The Murray Mallee location and terrain of the land was considered ideal for the purpose.[7] The Oculus passive radar observatory opened in December 2021.[8]
The reserve's official name is the
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Swan Reach (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Swan Reach (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Swan Reach Mission (1926 - 1946)". Find&Connect. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Bradbrook, Sam (18 March 2022). "Push to rename Murray River island after iconic Aboriginal musician Ruby Hunter". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "About Us". River Murray Dark Sky Reserve. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ a b Collins, Laura; Butcher, Anita; Dawes, Samantha (7 November 2019). "River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve, our first official reserve, lands Australia's darkest sky status". Australia: ABC News. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Vonic-Joyce, Meg; Step, Matt (23 June 2020). "SA's River Murray Dark Sky Reserve to become home of space traffic management facility". Australia: ABC News. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ "Silentium reaches for the stars with new Oculus Observatory". 9 December 2021.
- ^ "The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)". International Dark-Sky Association. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2020.