Burra Burra

Burra Burra lies in the Bald Hills east of the Clare Valley in South Australia, where Burra Creek cuts through rolling country between the Mount Lofty Ranges and the drier interior. The district belongs to Ngadjuri Country. Its red-gum woodlands, grasslands, rocky slopes and waterholes formed a resource-rich corridor used by families moving through the mid-north.

Ngadjuri people maintained rights and responsibilities across this country through kinship, law and knowledge of seasonal resources. Gum forests along the creeks provided shelter, fuel, tools and habitat for game, while reliable water made the valleys important meeting and travel routes. People timed their movements by water, ripening plants and the habits of game, and generations of accumulated knowledge let them draw on scattered resources through dry seasons.

Throughout these centuries Burra lay far beyond any European settlement. Its history was one of Ngadjuri law, seasonal movement and the creek's waterholes, an Aboriginal landscape of creek, woodland and hill country.