Moonta is a town of over 3000 people, situated 165 km from Adelaide on the "knee" of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. It is one of the state's most historic towns and is where many of our forebears lived. British pioneers arrived there in the 1840s and 1850s as pastoralists, but the explosion in development occurred in the 1860s and 1870s after the discovery of large fields of copper, when the population of Moonta climbed to become second only to Adelaide. The town has a historic feel from the many limestone buildings and remaining miners' cottages, mostly constructed by the Cornish who came in their thousands to work in the mines.