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13-January-2021
13-January-2021

Photographs supplied by Stephen Warren

The Rose Garden commemorates the 2000 Olympics and the 21 torch bearers from Port Augusta, and the train drivers who brought the flame from Cook to Port Augusta. 

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games / Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales.

In Australia the torch relay passed within an hour's drive of 85 per cent of the population, travelled over 27 000 kms and was carried by 11,000 torchbearers in the longest torch relay in Olympic history. The Olympic flame travelled by a variety of modes of transport, including a surf boat at Bondi, the Indian Pacific train across the Nullarbor Plain, a Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft in the remote outback and by camel on Cable Beach at Broome in the north-west of the country. The journey began in Uluru, in the centre of Australia.

Location

Address:Beauchamp Lane, Gladstone Square, Port Augusta, 5710
State:SA
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -32.491642
Long: 137.763403
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Garden
Monument Theme:Culture
Sub-Theme:Sport

Dedication

Actual Monument Dedication Date:Friday 26th October, 2001
Front Inscription

         IN COMMEMORATION
OFFICIAL OLYMPIC TORCHBEARERS
             PORT AUGUSTA
                12th JULY 2000

               Ryan Mitchell
       Port Augusta Olympian
(200 m Breastroke Sydney Olympics)

Dean Mahomed     Kevin Tucker          Trevor Hogg
Donna Kite             Carol Shillabeer      Kylie Brock
Anthony Holtham   Fran Neale              Pat Hynes
Cameron Redden   Rita Blieschke        Roger Blackeby
                               (Pt Pirie)                  (Pt Pirie)
Nichii Mardon         Peter Dennis            Lawrie Cutts
                              (Pt Germein)             (St George)
Ian Bastian             Elizabeth Gadaleta   Ruth Whittle
(Booleroo Centre)  (Pt Pirie)                   (Peterborough)
Shane Row            Grant Chapman        Dale Oates
(Carrieton)             (Pt Pirie)                    (Spalding)
Trevor Berryman
(Pt Adelaide)

Unveiled By Mayor Joy Baluch 26th October 2001

Left Side Inscription

In Commemoration

Official Olympic Torch
Locomotion drivers
(Cook To Port Augusta)

Roderick Baker
Grant Drummond
Darren Read
Peter Robbins

Torchbearer - Kevin Longhurst (Birkenhead)

Source: MA
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