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Yarwondutta Rock, Upper Eyre Peninsula
Yarwondutta Rock from the north. The first area cleared at the Minnipa Research Centre was this region around the rock. The water catchment tank had a pipeline which ran to the present (2007) office location. The water was used to supplementary water extensive horticultural plantings in that area, all of which eventually disappeared. The cover over the tank had gone by the 1970s. In the small area of scrub above the north (top left corner) is a granite outcrop which appears as a bare area. This is where the first camp was situated in 1914. A monument was erected there in 1990, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Centre.
The western part of the rock, just out of the picture, was quarried for railway ballast in the 1970s. Yarwondutta Rock is now under heritage listing.
(Source: Bob Holloway)