Experiences in Yorke Peninsula

Heritage & History

Cornish copper towns, lighthouses and shipwrecks.

The best heritage & history in Moonta

Little Cornwall's copper-mining triangle of Moonta, Wallaroo and Kadina tells one of Australia's great immigrant stories. Walk past poppet heads and miners' cottages, climb historic lighthouses and trace shipwrecks scattered along the coast.

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Moonta Mines

State heritage area at the heart of Little Cornwall.

A vast state heritage precinct of engine houses, cottages and a tourist railway recalling Australia's richest copper mine.

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Moonta Mines Museum

Copper-era treasures in the grand old miners' school.

A richly stocked museum in the imposing former Moonta Mines Model School, telling the Cornish copper story.

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