Lyndhurst

History

The original inhabitants of the area were the Aboriginal nation of the Kuyani people. The town is at the southern end of the Strzelecki Track, whose northern end is at Innamincka. It was once a station on the original train route north known as the Great Northern Railway that was planned to reach Darwin, but only ever made it to Alice Springs. This railway line became known as the Ghan, and the last train ran along it in 1980. The route was always subject to the weather and wash outs, and a more permanent route has been constructed some to the west, and subsequently extended to Darwin in 2003. 80 km to the north is Marree, a small town that is at the junction of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks. Lyndhurst was gazetted as a town in 1896, and initially served as a freight centre for the railways that were connected in 1882. Mount Lyndhurst, east, was named after the British Lord Chancellor by the government surveyor Samuel Perry. In the 1860s, Thomas Elder took up vast areas in the northern Flinders Ranges region and called the property Mount Lyndhurst.

Most-observed species

• Singing Honeyeater

  Gavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  71
• Zebra Finch

  Taeniopygia guttata (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  61
• Crested Pigeon

  Ocyphaps lophotes (Temminck, 1822) · Aves
  55
• White-winged Fairywren

  Malurus leucopterus Dumont, 1824 · Aves
  48
• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

  Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, 1838 · Aves
  41
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  37
• Black-faced Woodswallow

  Artamus cinereus Vieillot, 1817 · Aves
  35
• White-plumed Honeyeater

  Ptilotula penicillata (Gould, 1837) · Aves
  35

Most recent

• M 4 — 2014-06-09
  101 km NE of Roxby Downs, Australia
• M 4.2 — 2014-06-04
  110 km NE of Roxby Downs, Australia
• M 4 — 2007-01-28
  166 km E of Roxby Downs, Australia
• M 2.7 — 2007-01-01
  151 km NNE of Quorn, Australia
• M 3.3 — 2004-08-16
  148 km NNE of Quorn, Australia
• M 3 — 2003-07-07
  143 km NNE of Quorn, Australia