Tomkinson Ranges
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/South Australia" does not exist. Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. The Tomkinson Ranges is a mountain range in the northwest corner of South Australia. The range consists of sandstone hills, surrounded by spinifex grasslands. The range was named after politician Samuel Tomkinson (1816–1900) by the explorer William Gosse in the early 1870s.[1] Ernest Giles and his team reached the ranges shortly after, and established a base from which to explore the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts. Numerous prospecting expeditions were made through the region until the 1930s.[2]
Together with the Mann Ranges, the Tomkinson Ranges are an important[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">according to whom?] part of the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands. The communities of Kalka and Pipalyatjara are located at the base of the mountains.
References
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LMVwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.L. A. Wells; F. R. George (1904). Reports on Prospecting Operations in the Musgrave, Mann and Tomkinson Ranges. Adelaide: Government of South Australia.
