This section of the pipline was near Robertstown, which is on the Mallee plains just east of the Tothill Range. This remnant surrounded by cleared agricultural land  is a part of the North Mount Lofty Ranges. This is the traditional lands of the Ngadjuri people, and the town was the terminus of the Robertstown railway line from Eudunda, which was closed in 1990.

On a recent roadtrip I looked for but couldn’t find the traces of the old railway line in the Mallee landscape between Robertstown and Eudunda. This specific historical context of the railways had disappeared and it cannot be replaced through restoring the original context. Our situatedness (or immersion) in history places limits on our relationship between the present and the past and it also means that we approach the world from a particular perspective.