| Dry Creek explosives depot | |
|---|---|
 Powder magazines at Dry Creek | |
  Location in South Australia | |
| General information | |
| Status | Unoccupied |
| Type | Government magazine |
| Address | via Port River Expressway and Magazine Road |
| Town or city | Dry Creek[1] |
| Country | Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°49′42″S 138°34′48″E / 34.828347°S 138.579980°E |
| Construction started | 1906 |
| Completed | 1906 |
| Owner | South Australian Government |
| Dimensions | |
| Other dimensions | 200 metres (660 ft) wide by 1000 metres (3300 ft) long[2] |
The Dry Creek explosives depot was a secure storage facility at Dry Creek, near Port Adelaide, from 1904 to 1995,[3] serving the construction, mining and quarrying industries of South Australia and the mines of Broken Hill in New South Wales.[4]
- ^ "Search result for 'Dry Creek' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'SA Heritage Places', 'SA Heritage Places Indicative Footprints' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ Wood, Vivienne (August 1996). "Dry Creek Explosives Magazine Reserve: A heritage study. A report to the City of Salisbury" (PDF). Vivienne Wood, Archaeological Consultant. p. 1. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Explosives depot". slsa.sa.gov.au.
- ^ Jolly, Bridget (13 April 2000). "High and dry by the mangroves? South Australia's Dry Creek explosives magazines" (PDF). University of South Australia. originally published in Garnaut, Christin, Ed.; Hamnett, Stephen, Ed. (2000). "High and dry by the mangroves? South Australia's Dry Creek explosives magazines". Fifth Australian Urban History Planning History Conference. Adelaide: University of South Australia: 222–232.
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