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Port Pirie
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From Clare, the Main North Road heads to Jamestown, 65km north. To the west, a road branches off towards Crystal Brook, where there's a hikers' lodge at Bowman Park providing basic overnight shelter for hikers on the Heysen Trail. From here it's not far up Highway 1 to
PORT PIRIE
, the fourth-largest urban centre in South Australia. An ugly industrial city, its skyline is dominated by smelters' chimneys: as the nearest seaport to Broken Hill, the lead and zinc smelting industry here dates back to the discovery of the rich vein of lead-silver-zinc found there in 1883. The
Port Pirie Tourism and Arts Centre
on Mary Elie Street (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 9am-4pm; tel & fax 08/8633 0439, free call 1800 000 424) has interpretive brochures and self-guided walking tours of the town if you're interested in
historic buildings
and the smelting industry. If not, there's little else to keep you here. Beyond Port Pirie, Telowie Gorge and Mount Remarkable National Park, in the southern stretches of the Flinders Ranges, are within easy reach. Other useful information
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Australia,
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