The name Oodnadatta has been used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars.
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The OKA mail truck also carries some general freight and passengers.
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Oodnadatta's busiest era was World War II when Australian Army and Air Force set up local facilities to service troop trains and fighter aircraft en route to Darwin.
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A higher temperature was recorded at Cloncurry in 1889; however, this has since been shown to have been recorded in a non-standard enclosure and likely to have been considerably cooler than first believed.