Hawker is a town in the Flinders Ranges area of
South Australia, 365 kilometres (227 mi) north of
Adelaide. It is in the Flinders Ranges Council, the
state Electoral district of Stuart and the federal
Division of Grey.
This small outback town, Hawker ,was once a
thriving railway centre, and historic buildings are
still well preserved in its streets. Hawker was also
once an agricultural region producing bumper
crops of wheat. Serious drought sent the crops into
decline and the industry died.
Hawker is 64 kms north of Quorn and 110 kms from
Port Augusta and accessible by sealed road from
all capital cities in Australia and is approximately 5
hours drive from Adelaide, the population of
Hawker is approximately 300.