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line workers was established in the 1870s . Despite this the Arabunna people frequented the region in their lands between Cooper Creek and Lake Eyre , it ’ s believed they have been in the area for over twenty thousand years .
It ’ s this indigenous history that , in many ways , has shaped Marree through the integration with ‘ Afghan ’ cameleers who transported goods and equipment along the Aboriginal trading routes of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks , both converge on Marree making the town a three-way intersection .
The Afghan outpost soon became a town , ironically , as the thing that ended the work of the cameleers arrived , the trainline . Yet they remained living amongst the
Marree is a living museum to a past that was hard and adventurous
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