| Strangways Springs South Australia | |
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  Strangways Springs | |
| Coordinates | 29°09′14.4″S 136°34′20.5″E / 29.154000°S 136.572361°E |
Strangways Springs, Australia is located just off the Oodnadatta track, 39 kilometers south of William Creek. It is on the traditional lands of the Arabana people who call it Pangki Warrunha.
Strangways Springs is a significant mound springs complex, consisting of nearly two kilometer square area, full of hundreds of mound springs and soaks, surrounded by gibber plains. It is one of a series of similar formations that extend along the western edge of Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) from Marree to Dalhousie Springs including Freeling Springs, and the Blanche Cup and the Bubbler in the Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park, among others.[1]
In the 19th century, Strangways Springs was a pastoral property, one of eleven repeater station on Australia's Overland Telegraph Line and a stop on the Great Northern Railway. It was a critical part of the nation's communication system.
- ^ Greenslade, John; Leo, Joseph; Anne, Reeves, eds. (1985). South Australian Mound Springs. Adelaide: Nature Conversation Society in South Australia.