Tinga Tingana Station was a

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that once operated as a

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in outback

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. The lease was originally taken up by William Christopher Burkitt in 1874. The lease straddled the sandy country on either side of the Strzelecki Creek and had one semi-permanent waterhole along with five wells to water stock. Burkitt abandoned the station in 1889 after the lease expired. A fortnightly mail coach ran through the property in 1878 on the

Strzelecki Track Strzelecki Track is a mostly unsealed outback track in South Australia, linking Innamincka, South Australia, Innamincka to Lyndhurst, South Australia, Lyndhurst. History In 1870, the track was pioneered by Stockman (Australia), stockman, D ...

, with a horse changing station located on the property; the track to Tinga Tingana from the track was still utilised in the 1960s. An Aboriginal stockman named Logic killed his overseer, Cornelius Mulhall, at the property in 1878. Logic then disappeared into the

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, evading capture for two years until he returned and was arrested. It was later found that Mulhall had treated Logic brutally and he was released in 1885 and eventually returned to his old job at Tinga Tingala in 1886. The lease was briefly held by Turton and Bristow but in 1890 the government appointed a caretaker, G.L. Prior. John Warren of Anna Creek took over in 1892 and then abandoned in 1895 after

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and

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infestation. Another caretaker, Samuel Watts, looked after the property from 1896 until his death in 1897. All the Strzelecki stations were abandoned in 1899. The Tinga Tingana Homestead Ruins are listed on the

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. Much of the former station lies within the modern locality of Lindon.

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{{Stations of South Australia Stations in South Australia Far North (South Australia) 1874 establishments in Australia

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