Angorichina is a pastoral lease, 640km2 in area, in the Flinders Ranges in the Australian state of South Australia. Its three small centres of population, disposed on an east-west axis 18km (11miles) long, are Angorichina Station, Blinman, and Angorichina Tourist Village.
The lease was first taken up by Septimus Boord in 1853.[1] In 1859, the property was visited by the surveyors Selwyn and Goyder and by the Governor of South Australia, Richard MacDonnell. Later the same year a shepherd on Angorichina Station, Robert Blinman, first discovered copper and took out a mining lease which later became the Blinman mine.[2]
Walter Henry McFarlane acquired Angorichina in the early 1920s after disposing of Warrioota Station.[3] In 1941 the 1200sqmi property was carrying a flock of 38,000 sheep that produced 1300 bales of wool.[4]
, Angorichina Station was still a working sheep station, covering hills, creek beds, gorges and saltbush. The 1860s-era homestead, 60NaN0 east of Blinman, also accommodates up to six visitors for an upmarket experience of a Flinders Ranges sheep station.[5]
See main article: Blinman. Blinman, the small township within the pastoral lease had a population, in 2016, of 35.[6]
This small tourist village, 12km (07miles) west of the Angorichina Station homestead, provides accommodation, a caravan park and some services. The site was originally established in 1927 as Angorichina Hostel by the Tubercular Soldiers Association as a sanatorium for returned servicemen of World War I.[1] [7]