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Field, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Field 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 south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. Its boundaries were created on 24 August 2000. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Field. The majority land use within Field is ’primary production’ and is concerned with “agricultural production.” Some land in its south-east corner which is occupied by the Mount Boothby Conservation Park is zoned for ‘conservation’. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Field had a population of 79 people. Field is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Coorong District Council Coorong District Council is a local government area in South Australia located between the River Murray and the Limestone Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide City Centre
Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from the Park Lands around the whole city centre). The population was 15,115 in the . Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a greenfield site following a grid layout, with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of and is surrounded by of park lands.The area of the park lands quoted is based, in the absence of an official boundary between the City and North Adelaide, on an east–west line past the front entrance of Adelaide Oval. Within the city are five parks: Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smaller parks. Names for elements of the city centre are as follows: *The "city square mile" (in reality 1.67 square mile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tintinara, South Australia
Tintinara is a town located in the Murray and Mallee region of the South East of South Australia. The town is situated on the Dukes Highway and the Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. It is in The Coorong District Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral district of MacKillop and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Barker. At the 2016 Australian census, the town and district had a population of 527. The origin of the name has been debated. One possibility is that a local Aboriginal man was named ''Tin-Tin'', and the 'ara' was appended to form the place name, or that one of the Boothbys' Aboriginal employees was named Tintinara. Geoff Manning suggests that the name may have derived from an Aboriginal word, ''tinlinyara'', the stars in Orion's belt Orion's Belt or the Belt of Orion, also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters, is an asterism in the constellation Orion. It consists of the three bright stars Alnitak, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who spent Census night, 9 August 2016, in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservation (ethic)
Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, and sentientism, environmental ideologies that inform ecocultural practices and identities. There has recently been a movement towards evidence-based conservation which calls for greater use of scientific evidence to improve the effectiveness of conservation efforts. As of 2018 15% of land and 7.3% of the oceans were protected. Many environmentalists set a target of protecting 30% of land and marine territory by 2030. In 2021, 16.64% of land and 7.9% of the oceans were protected. The 2022 IPCC report on climate impacts and adaptation, underlines the need to conserve 30% to 50% of the Earth's land, freshwater and ocean areas – echoing the 30% goal of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Boothby Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Mount Boothby Conservation Park, formerly the Mount Boothby National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the locality of Field about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the Culburra town centre on the Dukes Highway. The conservation park consists of land in section 3 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Colebatch. The land first received protected area status as a national park proclaimed under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' on 30 November 1967. On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted as the ''Mount Boothby Conservation Park'' under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''. The conservation park was named after its predecessor and ultimately after Mount Boothby, a hill located within its boundaries and with a height of . As of 2019, it covered an area of . In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows: Mount Boothby Conservation Park covers a rolling ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Field
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The Hundred of Field is a cadastral hundred of the County of Cardwell (South Australia), centred on the rural localities of Field and Colebatch, South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor Winston Dugan in 1938 and named for Edgar John Field, a local government administrator of the day. References Field Field may refer to: Expanses of open ground * Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport * Battlefield * Lawn, an area of mowed grass * Meadow, a grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria (Australia), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meningie, South Australia
Meningie is a town on the south-east side of Lake Albert in South Australia. It is on the Princes Highway near The Coorong and was surveyed in 1866. At the , the locality of Meningie had a population of 1118 with a median age of 51 while its town centre had a population of 852. History The word ''Meningie'' is derived from "the Aboriginal word 'meningeng' meaning 'place of mud'". The town was surveyed between March and June 1866 by W. Farquhar without any proclamation. Land was offered for sale on 23 August 1866. The name also was used for an "adjoining private subdivision of sections 104, 106/9 and 111" in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bonney. A school was opened in 1869. A jetty was erected in 1867, with paddle steamers operating between Meningie and other ports on Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina until 1927/1928. The town ceased to operate as a port in December 1936. Boundaries for the locality were created for the "long established name" on 24 August 2000 and wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coorong, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Coorong is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia which is associated with the lagoon known as the Coorong in the south-east of the state and which overlooks the continental coastline from the mouth of the Murray River about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide to the immediate north of the town of Kingston SE extending for a distance of at least . It extends from the Murray Mouth in the north to the northern end of the Paranki Lagoon in the south including: *the following bodies of water with the Murray River system - Port Pullen, Coorong Channel, the Tauwitchere Channel and the full extent of the Coorong lagoon system, * the following major islands - Bird, Ewe, Long, Mud and Tauwitchere * the full extent of the Younghusband Peninsula *a parcel of land of an area of located between the localities of Meningie and Salt Creek and * land between the Coorong Lagoon and the Paranki Lagoon. The boundaries of the locality were created firstly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colebatch, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Colebatch 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 south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. Its boundaries were created on 24 August 2000. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Colebatch. The majority land use within Colebatch is ’primary production’ and is concerned with “agricultural production.” Some land in the south which is occupied by the Messent Conservation Park is zoned for ‘conservation’. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Colebatch had a population of 71 people. The locality includes a granite underground tank and guttering system which is listed as a state heritage place on the South Australian Heritage Register The South Australian Heritage Register, also known as the SA Heritage Register, is a statutory register of historic places in South Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coonalpyn, South Australia
Coonalpyn is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ... and about south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. It is situated in the local government area of the Coorong District Council and is in the State electoratal district of MacKillop and the Federal division of Barker. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 353 of which 195 lived in its town centre. Origin of the name This town's name is derived from the Aboriginal word ''Coonalpyn'', meaning ''Barren Woman''. ''Coonalpyn Downs'' was chosen by John Barton Hack to name the property and the railway station within this property. History The town of Coonalpyn was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tailem Bend, South Australia
Tailem Bend (locally, "Tailem") is a rural town in South Australia, south-east of the state capital of Adelaide. It is located on the lower reaches of the River Murray, near where the river flows into Lake Alexandrina. It is linear in layout since it is constrained by river cliffs on its western side and the Adelaide–Melbourne railway line is dominant on its eastern side. The town grew and consolidated through being a large railway centre between the 1890s and 1990s; now it continues to service regional rural communities. In the , Tailem Bend and the surrounding area had a population of 1,705. History Prior to European settlement the area was inhabited for millennia by the indigenous Ngarrindjeri people, who made bark and reed canoes and lived on fish and animals dependent on the River Murray. Once written as "Tail'em Bend", the town's name is the Ngarrindjeri word "thelim", meaning "bend", referring to the sharp bend that the river makes in this location. An alternative e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
