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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 |
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| State: | SA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -32.491642 Long: 137.763403 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Garden |
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| Monument Theme: | Culture |
| Sub-Theme: | Sport |
Dedication
| Actual Monument Dedication Date: | Friday 26th October, 2001 |
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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
In Commemoration
Official Olympic Torch
Locomotion drivers
(Cook To Port Augusta)
Roderick Baker
Grant Drummond
Darren Read
Peter Robbins
Torchbearer - Kevin Longhurst (Birkenhead)
