Oodnadatta is a small, remote outback town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia, located 1043 kilometres north-north-west of the state capital of Adelaide by road or 873 km (542 mi) direct, at an altitude of 112 metres. The unsealed Oodnadatta Track, an outback road popular with tourists, runs through the town.
The Pink Roadhouse at Oodnadatta
Oodnadatta Track sign
Canoe hire
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 26,878.
European settlers with Aboriginal Australians, 1850
Charles Sturt's expedition leaving Adelaide for central Australia, 1844
A satellite image of eastern South Australia. Note the dry lakes (white patches) in the north.
The Barossa Valley, northeast of Adelaide. South Australia's wine industry is the largest in Australia.
