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 * **__Shipping transport__** from SA’s over 90 port towns and jetties. Over half the number of shipsthat plied the trade from South Australian were built in SA.
 * Ketches could rise and fall with the tide and get in close to shore. They acted as lighters, for instance at Port Wakefield, taking copper out to steamers anchored in the Gulf.
 * **__Port Wakefield 1849__** was the outlet for copper from the Burra smelters which had gone on bullock drays to Adelaide. Wagons were pulled by mules and bullocks, driven by Chilean muleteers in picturesque garb.
 * Ketches brought coal from Britain and NSW for the smelters at Burra via Port Wakefield.
 * Port Wakefield shipping slowed when the railway went through to Kapunda from Gawler in 1860. But then narrow gauge railways in 1870s went to agricultural areas from Port Wakefield, Port Pirie and Port Augusta.

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