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Blackford, South Australia
Blackford is a locality within the Kingston District Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The locality boundaries include the Mount Scott Conservation Park __NOTOC__ Mount Scott Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Blackford about east of Kingston SE in the state's Limestone Coast region. The conservation park is loca .... Most of the Hundred of Murrabinna is contained in the locality of Blackford. The northern boundary is coincident, but the locality extends east and west beyond the hundred into the hundreds of Minecrow and Lacepede respectively and the southern end of the hundred of Murrabinna is in the boundaries of the locality of Reedy Creek. References Limestone Coast {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston SE, South Australia
Kingston SE (Kingston South East to distinguish it from Kingston-on-Murray) formerly Kingston is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east coastline on the shores of Lacepede Bay. It is located about southeast of the state capital of Adelaide and north-west of the centre of the city of Mount Gambier. At the 2016 census, Kingston SE had a population of 1,648. History Kingston, South Australia was established in the 1800s by Archibald, his brother James Cooke and James' wife Mrs. Mary Macpherson Cooke. Much later a Sir George Strickland Kingston, a South Australian politician, surveyor and architect was chosen, for the co-incidence of his name, to open the Kingston Post Office on 9 February 1869. The extension on its name is to distinguish Kingston in the South East (of South Australia) from another 'Kingston' in the state which is now officially named " Kingston on Murray". The extension was added in July 1940. The present-day town o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of MacKillop
MacKillop is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic saint. MacKillop is a 25,313 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching south and west from the mouth of the Murray River to the Victorian State border, but excluding the far-southern point of the state, (which includes Mount Gambier). It contains the Kingston District Council, Naracoorte Lucindale Council, District Council of Robe, Tatiara District Council, Wattle Range Council, as well as parts of The Coorong District Council. The main population centres are Bordertown, Keith, Kingston SE, Meningie, Millicent, Naracoorte, Penola and Robe. MacKillop was first contested at the 1993 election, essentially as a reconfigured version of the old electoral district of Victoria. Like its predecessor, it is a comforta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taratap, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Taratap is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat of Kingston SE. Tarap's name and boundaries were assigned on 3 December 1998. Its name is derived from the Taratap triangulation station which itself is derived ultimately from “an Aboriginal waterhole in the Hundred of Peacock.” The name was also used for “a local homestead.” The principal land use in the locality is "primary production." The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Taratap had a population of 42 people. Taratap is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Kingston District Council The Kingston District Council (formerly District Council of Lacepede) is a local government area in the Limestone Coast, South Australia established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
