NA ="Fowlers Bay, Nundroo, Coorabie, Yalata,";
FE1[0]=" What a strange place to grow grapes - in the Desert on Nullarbor in Far Western South Australia. After months of investigations, a test vineyard was planted at Nundroo on the far west coast of South Australia. About 900kms by road";
FE2[0]=" from Adelaide, it will be the most isolated vineyard in Australia. The Nundroo Winery Trust purchased the 25,000ha Nundroo Station last year with the specific purpose of growing winegrapes for production of premium wine for the U";
FE3[0]="S market. It has entered an agreement with Vitiwise Viticultural Management and The Terraces, of McLaren Vale, SA, to oversee the development of a 2.3ha (5 acre) test vineyard of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and some Merlot grapes. L";
FE4[0]="en Hardy, of Fowlers Bay, has been appointed vineyard foreman. Nundroo Winery Trust spokesman, Les Case, of New Hampshire, USA, in Adelaide recently, said that Adam Jacobs, of Vitiwise, was to make a specific survey of 5 acres and";
FE5[0]=" an additional topographical survey of 1000 acres for further plantings once the test plot was proven. He and Andrew Buttery, of The Terraces, McLaren Vale, have made an initial visit to the site and will report to Nundroo Winery ";
FE6[0]="Trust. 'This move shows that we are serious,' said Case, adding that the first vines would be planted next June or July. 'It is our hope to show that we can grow world-class, Napa-style Cabernet grapes.' Nundroo is an isolated fla";
FE7[0]="tlands of the Nullarbor Plain between Ceduna and Nullarbor. It is at the eastern extremity of the Great Australian Bight some 1014 km west of Adelaide and 554 km northwest of Port Lincoln and is really nothing more than a very iso";
FE8[0]="lated haven for very keen fishermen. Len Hardy calls it the 'Nundroo Dream' an off-beat plan to turn a sheep station in the middle of nowhere into vineyards.";
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LA1[0]=" Nundroo is an isolated flatlands of the Nullarbor Plain between Ceduna and Nullarbor. It is at the eastern extremity of the Great Australian Bight some 1014 km west of Adelaide and 554 km northwest of Port Lincoln and is really no";
LA2[0]="thing more than a very isolated haven for very keen fishermen. Fowlers Bay located nearby was almost certainly first sighted by the Dutchman Pieter Nuyts who sailed across the Great Australian Bight in 1627. It was not explored in";
LA3[0]=" any detail until 1802 when Matthew Flinders, slowly circumnavigating Australia in the Investigator, explored the Bay and named it after his lieutenant, Robert Fowler. Flinders and his men actually went ashore here thus becoming t";
LA4[0]="he first Europeans to step onto South Australian soil. It is interesting that the name Fowlers Bay was not officially adopted until 1940. Prior to that it was variously known as Port Eyre, Tarambo and Yalata - a local Aboriginal w";
LA5[0]="ord, which meant something like 'shellfish' or, perhaps, 'oysters'.";
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CL1[0]=" Len Hardy calls it the 'Nundroo Dream' an off-beat plan to turn a sheep station in the middle of nowhere into vineyards. Despite being 1000km west of Adelaide on the fringe of the Nullarbor where rain can be a rare commodity, he i";
CL2[0]="sn't the least concerned. 'You wouldn't expect to see all that (vineyard development) out here â€' it would have to take an American to do it,' says Mr Hardy, the new vineyard manager for Nundroo Wine Trust. The American he talks ";
CL3[0]="about is Les Case, a chemical engineer who bought the 21,000ha Nundroo Station with the dream of producing Napa Valley-style cabernet grapes and creating a new industry for the region. Mr Hardy, 52, said the rugged plains near Nun";
CL4[0]="droo, on the Eyre Highway, 'are a pretty unlikely place to grow grapes'. However, he is certain it is achievable. Out here, kangaroos and wombats are more commonplace than people ' in fact, Nundroo's population is a mere 10 people";
CL5[0]=". 'I'm quite sure grapes will grow here all right,' Mr Hardy said. The climate is not hot - but certainly very dry with manes annual rainfall for 300 mm. Recently they have trucked in a reverse osmosis de-salination plant in a con";
CL6[0]="tainer worthe around $50,000 - Yes they certainly are serious!  ";
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HI1[0]=" Fowlers Bay located nearby was almost certainly first sighted by the Dutchman Pieter Nuyts who sailed across the Great Australian Bight in 1627. It was not explored in any detail until 1802 when Matthew Flinders, slowly circumnavi";
HI2[0]="gating Australia in the Investigator, explored the Bay and named it after his lieutenant, Robert Fowler. Flinders and his men actually went ashore here thus becoming the first Europeans to step onto South Australian soil. It is in";
HI3[0]="teresting that the name Fowlers Bay was not officially adopted until 1940. Prior to that it was variously known as Port Eyre, Tarambo and Yalata - a local Aboriginal word which meant something like 'shellfish' or, perhaps, 'oyster";
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