Dry Creek explosives depot

Dry Creek explosives depot
Powder magazines at Dry Creek
Dry Creek explosives depot is located in South Australia
Dry Creek explosives depot
Location in South Australia
General information
StatusUnoccupied
TypeGovernment magazine
Addressvia Port River Expressway and Magazine Road
Town or cityDry Creek[1]
CountryAustralia
Coordinates34°49′42″S 138°34′48″E / 34.828347°S 138.579980°E / -34.828347; 138.579980
Construction started1906
Completed1906
OwnerSouth Australian Government
Dimensions
Other dimensions200 metres (660 ft) wide by 1000 metres (3300 ft) long[2]

The Dry Creek explosives depot was a secure storage facility at Dry Creek, near Port Adelaide, from 1904 to 1995,[3] serving the construction, mining and quarrying industries of South Australia and the mines of Broken Hill in New South Wales.[4]

  1. ^ "Search result for 'Dry Creek' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'SA Heritage Places', 'SA Heritage Places Indicative Footprints' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. ^ Wood, Vivienne (August 1996). "Dry Creek Explosives Magazine Reserve: A heritage study. A report to the City of Salisbury" (PDF). Vivienne Wood, Archaeological Consultant. p. 1. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Explosives depot". slsa.sa.gov.au.
  4. ^ Jolly, Bridget (13 April 2000). "High and dry by the mangroves? South Australia's Dry Creek explosives magazines" (PDF). University of South Australia. originally published in Garnaut, Christin, Ed.; Hamnett, Stephen, Ed. (2000). "High and dry by the mangroves? South Australia's Dry Creek explosives magazines". Fifth Australian Urban History Planning History Conference. Adelaide: University of South Australia: 222–232.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Retrieved 10 March 2015.