Angorichina
Angorichina is a pastoral lease, in area, in the Flinders Ranges in the Australian state of South Australia. Its three small permanently inhabited places, dispersed on an east-west axis long, are Angorichina Station, Blinman, and Angorichina Village.
Angorichina Station
History
The lease was first taken up by Septimus Boord in 1853. In 1859, the property was visited by the surveyors Selwyn and Goyder and by the Governor of South Australia, Richard MacDonnell. Later the same year a shepherd on Angorichina Station, Robert Blinman, first discovered copper and took out a mining lease, which later became the Blinman mine.Walter Henry McFarlane acquired Angorichina in the early 1920s after disposing of Warrioota Station. In 1941 the property was carrying a flock of 38,000 sheep that produced 1300 bales of wool.
, the property had been in the Fargher family for four generations.
Today
, the owners are Di and Ian Fargher, and Angorichina Station is still a working sheep station. The renovated 1860s-era homestead, east of Blinman, together with the garden cottage, accommodates up to eight guests, with only a single group hosted for each stay.The property is located around east of Blinman, and extends over around.
Populated places
Blinman
Blinman, the small township within the pastoral lease had a population, in 2021, of 43.Angorichina Village
Angorichina Village is a small tourist village, west of the Angorichina Station homestead, which provides accommodation, a caravan park and some services.The site was originally established in 1927 as Angorichina Hostel by the Tubercular Soldiers Association as a sanatorium for returned servicemen of World War I.
Paleontological importance
There are important complex fossil reefs on the property, recording the emergence of small fauna, such as molluscs, arthropods, brachiopods, and tommotiids. There are also fossils of archaeocyaths and calcimicrobes, and one of the sites records the extinction of the archaeocyathids resulting from environmental changes in the early Cambrian.The oldest known corallimorpharia have been observed in Balcoracanna Gorge, and the first and only known articulated tommotiid specimens of Eccentrotheca helenia and Paterimitra pyramidalis were identified in the exposed strata of the Bunkers Range. This range also hosts diverse species of brachiopods, palaeoscolecid worms, bradoriid arthropods, and molluscs, along with an important silicified trilobite assemblage representative of the "Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone".
The fossils are managed under the Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989, and it is intended to create a formal conservation agreement with the Angorichina Station.