Place:Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia

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NameOodnadatta
TypeTown
Coordinates27.5°S 135.45°E
Located inSouth Australia, Australia
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Oodnadatta is a small, remote outback town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia, located about north of the state capital of Adelaide (over by road) and 112 m above sea level.

The name is probably derived from the Arrernte word utnadata, meaning "mulga blossom", and the place was for tens of thousands of years a stop on an old trade route for Aboriginal people. It was later used by the Overland Telegraph Line and was a stop on the old railway from Adelaide to Alice Springs, but is now bypassed by The Ghan. The unsealed Oodnadatta Track, an outback road popular with tourists, runs through the town.

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