Nonning

Nonning is located in South Australia
Nonning
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Location in South Australia

32°31′12″S 136°29′28″E / 32.52°S 136.491°E / -32.52; 136.491 (Nonning)

Nonning or Nonning Station is both a pastoral lease and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. The property operates as a sheep station; the name and boundaries of the formal locality were created on 26 April 2013 for the long established local name.[1]

It is situated approximately 69 kilometres (43 mi) north of Kimba and 66 kilometres (41 mi) west of Iron Knob. The property is at the eastern end of the Gawler Range and is bounded to the north by Beacon Hill Station, to the west by Kolendo and Mount Ive, to the south by Uno and to the east by Siam Station.[2]

The traditional owners of the Gawler Ranges are the Gugada people.[2]

A lease in the area was taken up by Charles Ryan in 1864.[2] Nonning was established by C. H. Leycester in 1864.[3] The lease changed hands many times in the 1860s. In 1868 the property occupied an area of 476 square miles (1,233 km2) and was equipped with wells and dams and stocked with over 7,000 sheep.[4] Later, Nonning was combined with Kolendo and Coralbignie in the late 1860s with Nonning as the head station. At one stage some 90,000 head of sheep were shorn at Nonning.[5] The lease expired in 1888.[2]

Rentals increased in the 1890s and many pastoralists deserted their runs. Eventually rentals were decreased again and McTaggart, Smith and Gooch acquired the lease for Nonning in 1906, and by 1915 McTaggart was the sole owner.[2]

Dorper sheep had been introduced to a merino base in 2003. In 2010 the 4,000-square-kilometre (1,544 sq mi) property was awarded organic status. The McTaggart family completed their last shearing in early 2009 and had started running sheep for the production of meat instead of wool. Nonning was supporting about a flock of 30,000 sheep.[6]

Nonning Post Office opened in 1867; its closure date is unknown.[7] A primary school also formerly existed at Nonning.[8]

Nonning hosts the annual Nonning Gymkhana, organised by the Gawler Ranges Progress Association, to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

The Coralbignie (Houlderoo) Rocks, located at the southern end of the Nonning locality, are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as a designated place of geological significance.[9]

  1. ^ "Search result(s) for Nonning, 5717". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e A. C. Robinson; K. D. Casperson; P. D. Canty; C. A. Macdonald (1985). "A Biological survey of the Gawler Ranges in South Australia" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Place Names of South Australia - N". The Manning Index of South Australian History. Government of South Australia. 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. Adelaide, South Australia: National Library of Australia. 7 April 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  5. ^ "History of the Gawler Ranges". Mt Ive Station. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  6. ^ Louise McBride (11 September 2011). "Organic status at Nonning Station". Stock Journal. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Nonning". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  8. ^ "Search result(s) for Siam Station and Nonning Rural School". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Coralbignie (Houlderoo) Rocks (designated place of geological significance)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2016.