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The Davenport Range is a mountain range 760 km north of Adelaide, South Australia. The nearest town is Coober Pedy which about 140 km to the southwest. It was named by the explorer Major Peter Warburton who first saw them in 1859. He named them after Sir Samuel Davenport (1818—1889), a South Australian politician.

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