Editing Flinders Ranges (section)

====Later settlement====
In 1852 [[Kanyaka Station]] was established by Hugh Proby.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

William Pinkerton is credited as being the first European to find a route through the Flinders Ranges via Pichi Richi Pass. In 1853 he drove 7,000 sheep along the eastern plains of the range, to where [[Quorn, South Australia|Quorn]] would be built 25 years later (Pinkerton Creek runs through the Quorn township).{{cn|date=November 2022}}

During the late 1870s the push to open agricultural land for wheat north of the [[Goyder's Line]] had met with unusual success, with good rainfall and crops in the Flinders Ranges. This, along with the copper mining lobby (copper was mined in the Hawker-Flinders Ranges area in the late 1850s and transported overland by bullock dray), induced the government to build a narrow gauge railway line north of [[Port Augusta railway station|Port Augusta]] through Pichi Richi Pass, [[Quorn railway station|Quorn]], [[Hawker, South Australia|Hawker]] and along the west of the ranges to [[Marree railway station|Marree]], to service the agricultural and pastoral industries.
[[Image:Kanyaka homestead.jpg|right|thumb|Abandoned [[Kanyaka Station]] homestead between Quorn and Hawker]]
However, rainfall returned to a normal pattern for the region, causing many agricultural farms to collapse. Remnants of abandoned homes can still be seen dotted around the arid landscape. Wilpena station, due to its unusual geography, along with areas around Quorn and Carrieton, are now the only places north of [[Goyder's Line]] to sustain any crops.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} Wilpena has now been left to the wild and is only a tourist location. As of 2009, kukri, unpopular with most Australian farmers as it yields 10–15% less grain than other varieties of wheat, is being grown for export to India.<ref>Prue Adams. {{cite episode | title = Flour Power
 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/landline/old-site/content/2008/s2545729.htm | series = Landline | series-link = Landline (TV series) | airdate = 2009-04-20 }}</ref>

Mining exploration continued in the region, but coal mining at [[Leigh Creek, South Australia|Leigh Creek]] and barytes at Oraparinna were the only long-term successes. Pastoral industries flourished, and the rail line became of major importance in opening up and servicing sheep and cattle stations along the route to [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice Springs]].{{cn|date=November 2022}}

Hawker townsite was surveyed at a bend in the railway line where the train line left the main road to [[Blinman, South Australia|Blinman]], and named in 1880 after South Australian politician and pastoralist [[George Charles Hawker]].{{cn|date=November 2022}}

Quorn was surveyed by Godfrey Walsh and proclaimed a town on 16 May 1878. The township covered an area of {{convert|1.72|km2|abbr=on}} and was laid out in squares in a manner similar to the state's capital city, Adelaide. Governor [[William Jervois|Jervois]] reputedly bestowed the name 'Quorn' because his private secretary at the time had come from the parish of [[Quorn, Leicestershire]] in England.{{cn|date=November 2022}}