Week3

We have searched to find that camels were important in the early days of SA in the outback. The explorers like Bourke and Wills and Stuart used camels. Afghan people were good handlers of camels and use to supply camels for work in the outback. We found out there is a statue of a camel made out of railway sleepers in Maree. The Ghan railway is named after these Afghan people. Camels can cross the Simpson Desert.
This activity has sparked lots of learning and interest in our class. This week it helped us with our internet searching - we asked a question in Ask Jeeves Thanks for the motivation! Hope we are on the right track with our answer!

The camel has something to do with the Ghan Train that goes to Alice Springs, referring back to the camel trains led by the Afghan people along the same track many moons ago.

There are camels in the Adelaide Zoo

The connection that camels have with South Australia is that camel studs were set up in 1866, by Sir Thomas Elder at Beltana Station in South Australia.

In SA we used to have camel trains that went from Port Augusta to Alice Springs. The Ghan train is named after the Afghans who used to run the camel trains.