Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, 223 km (139 mi) north of the state capital, Adelaide. Port Pirie is the largest city and the main retail centre of the Mid North region of South Australia. The city has an expansive history which dates back to 1845. Port Pirie was the first proclaimed regional city in South Australia, and is currently the second most important and second busiest port in SA.
The lead smelter and grain silos at the wharf of Port Pirie
The former Sampson's butcher shop at 64-68 Ellen Street has been converted into a residence.
John Pirie Bridge
The former Ellen Street railway station, now a museum
The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost and larger of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight. It spans from the Cape Catastrophe and Eyre Peninsula in the west to Cape Spencer and Yorke Peninsula in the east.
The world's largest known breeding aggregation of giant cuttlefish occurs in Spencer Gulf.
Little penguins breed on islands in Spencer Gulf.
The harbor of Port Broughton on the Eastern shore of Spencer Gulf
Spencer Gulf seen from one of NASA's Satellites
