Qualla: Eyre Telegraph Station https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Eyre Telegraph Station https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station Eyre Telegraph Station: Introduction https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. To reach it you must leave the highway and drop off the edge of the Nullarbor, easing a four-wheel drive down the escarpment and through soft sand dunes until a substantial limestone building appears where you least expect one: a wide-verandahed house with a corrugated-iron roof, standing alone in mallee scrub a stone's throw from the Southern Ocean. For thirty years messages racing between Adelaide and Albany passed through this remote room. Then the wires fell silent, and for half a century the Eyre Telegraph Station simply waited.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/qf3b-eyre-telegraph-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Eyre Telegraph Station: A Link in the Long Wire https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The building dates to 1897, raised from local limestone to house a repeater station on the telegraph line strung along the coast of the Great Australian Bight between Adelaide and Albany. Telegraph signals weaken over distance, so repeater stations like this one received the fain...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/qf3b-eyre-telegraph-station-a-link-in-the-long-wire.mp3 0:06 2 full Eyre Telegraph Station: Where Eyre Found Water https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The station stands close to a place that earned its name in desperation. In 1841 the explorer Edward John Eyre struggled along this coast on an overland crossing of some 3,200 kilometres, one of the most punishing journeys in the history of Australian exploration. Near here he fo...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/qf3b-eyre-telegraph-station-where-eyre-found-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Eyre Telegraph Station: Fifty Years of Silence https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The station worked for half a century before history moved on without it. In 1927 the telegraph line was shifted some 150 kilometres north to follow the new Trans-Australian Railway, and the limestone house was abandoned to the wind and salt. For the next fifty years it decayed q...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/qf3b-eyre-telegraph-station-fifty-years-of-silence.mp3 0:06 4 full Eyre Telegraph Station: A Haven for Birds and People https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Rescue came in 1977, exactly fifty years after the silence began. Volunteers from the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, now BirdLife Australia, restored the old house with help from the Western Australian Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Post Office Historical ...

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