NA ="Maitland, Ardrossan, Port Victoria, Port Vincent, Port Wakefield, Warooka, Edithburgh, Wallaroo,";
FE1[0]=" Best known for its long sandy beaches and historic copper mining towns, Yorke Peninsula is also home to innovative food and wine producers. You'll find friendly pubs serving fresh seafood daily, oysters farmed just off shore and v";
FE2[0]="ines growing beside endless expanses of cropping fields. Former cereal farmers Rod and Toni Gregory own the peninsula's only winery, and you'll find Gregory's Wines between Ardrossan and Maitland towards the north of the region. A";
FE3[0]="s the couple discovered 10 years ago, the peninsula's warm, dry climate and rich soil is perfect for wine grape growing. Today the 10-hectare Gregorys vineyard produces more than 30 tonnes of grapes annually, used in the creation ";
FE4[0]="of more than 2200 cases of premium wines under the Barley Stacks label.  Some 90 per cent of Barley Stacks wine is exported to Asia, Northern Europe and the United States, with the remainder available for free tasting and sales at";
FE5[0]=" the cellar door. Gregory's Wines is one of many innovative businesses marked on the Yorke Peninsula Home Grown Trail, a self-drive guide to everything from olives and oysters to ostriches. Grab a copy of the Yorke Peninsula Secre";
FE6[0]="ts Visitor Guide from visitor information centres for details on where to find fragrant lavender fields, hand-made paper and alpacas.";
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LA1[0]=" This leg-shaped region of low relief and gently undulating terrain has been a major source of mineral wealth. It is now one of Australia's prime barley growing areas, with a coast popular with holiday-makers. Structurally, the are";
LA2[0]="a is a peneplain of ancient rocks of Precambrian to Paleozoic age, with Permian glacial till occurring widely towards the southern end of the peninsula and younger, Tertiary, deposits along the eastern coast. Most of the soils are";
LA3[0]=" calcareous, easily cultivated and highly productive by South Australian standards. An extensive system of salt lakes and seasonal swamps between Yorketown and Warooka separates the cereal growing lands of the north from the predo";
LA4[0]="minantly pastoral and sparsely populated 'foot' of the peninsula. The near-encirclement of the peninsula by gulf waters promotes an equable climate, especially favourable for barley growing as moist breezes in early summer retard ";
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CL1[0]=" As the Gregory's discovered 10 years ago, the peninsula's warm, dry climate and rich soil is perfect for wine grape growing. Today the 10-hectare Gregorys vineyard produces more than 30 tonnes of grapes annually, used in the creat";
CL2[0]="ion of more than 2200 cases of premium wines under the Barley Stacks label. Ardrossan has a temperate climate with regular sea breezes. The maximum temperature is usually a few degrees cooler than Adelaide.      ";
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HI1[0]=" It is not clear when the first Europeans set foot on Yorke Peninsula. Extensive scrub cover discouraged all but a few pastoralists before the discovery of rich copper ore at Kadina in 1859 and Moonta in 1861. Agricultural settleme";
HI2[0]="nt was encouraged by the Waste Lands Amendment Act of 1869, which promoted land sales on credit terms. By 1871, farmers were cropping small areas of wheat around Stansbury, Yorketown, Edithburgh, Ardrossan and Maitland. From the 1";
HI3[0]="880s technical advances accelerated the clearing of farmland. The 'mullenising' process was adopted whereby mallee was rolled and burnt rather than chopped, and the stump-jump plough was invented. From the mid-1890s superphosphate";
HI4[0]=" was sown together with wheat seed. The region soon earned a reputation for reliable cereal growing. Since the 1950s, barley has replaced wheat as the primary source of farm income. Yorke Peninsula produces 6% of the value of the ";
HI5[0]="State's farm production - 49% of it from barley, 22% from wheat and 20% from sheep. In the nineteenth century many small ports shipped bagged grain, but with the advent of bulk handling only Ardrossan and Wallaroo remain as grain ";
HI6[0]="handlers, together with a new port completed in 1970 at Giles Point to serve the southern part of the peninsula. Dolomite is quarried near Ardrossan, Wallaroo has been manufacturing superphosphate since early in the century, initi";
HI7[0]="ally as an adjunct to operations at its great copper smelting works. The salt lakes in the Edithburgh-Yorketown district became the State's centre for salt production in the 1890s before evaporating pans were established at Port P";
HI8[0]="rice, near the head of Gulf St Vincent.";
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