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Keilira, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Keilira is a locality located within the Kingston District Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a 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 .... References Limestone Coast {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 1873. Kingston SE is the largest town of the district and also the seat of council. The district is mostly reliant on agriculture, particularly cereal crops, sheep and cattle. Cape Jaffa also hosts a lobster fishing fleet, with other commercial fishing also providing part of the area's economy. Tourism also plays a minor role, with Kingston SE a minor tourist destination, noted for its 'Big Lobster', with Mount Scott Conservation Park and Butchers Gap Conservation Park also located in the district. History The area was originally settled by the Ngarrindjeri Aborigines, who lived along the Coorong and extended across the Murray River to the present day site of Goolwa. The first European to make contact with this stretch of coastline was the French explorer Nicolas Baudin who discovered Lacepede Bay in 1802. In 1840, the Brig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limestone Coast
The Limestone Coast is a name used since the early twenty-first century for a South Australian government region located in the south east of South Australia which immediately adjoins the continental coastline and the Victorian border. The name is also used for a tourist region and a wine zone both located in the same part of South Australia. Extent The Limestone Coast is a South Australian Government Region which consists of land within the following local government areas located in the south east of the state: the City of Mount Gambier and the District Councils of Grant, Kingston, Robe, Tatiara and Naracoorte Lucindale and the Wattle Range Council, and the extent of "coastal waters" up to three nautical miles seaward of the low water mark between the border with Victoria in the east and the northern boundary of the Kingston District Council in the north-west. Industry regions with the same name Limestone Coast Tourism Region The words 'Limestone Coast' also used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of MacDonnell
The County of MacDonnell is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1857 and named for the South Australian Governor at the time of proclamation, Richard Graves MacDonnell. It is located in the upper south-east of the state from the Limestone Coast at Kingston to the Victorian border. This includes the following contemporary local government areas of the state: * Kingston District Council (excluding coastal portions at north and south) * Naracoorte Lucindale Council (north third) * Tatiara District Council (small south portion) Hundreds The County of MacDonnell is divided into the following 15 hundreds: * Hundred of Duffield ( Coorong, Taratap) * Hundred of Landseer ( Taratap) * Hundred of Peacock (Keilira) * Hundred of Marcollat ( Marcollat) * Hundred of Parsons ( Padthaway) * Hundred of Beeamma ( Western Flat) * Hundred of Geegeela ( Bangham) * Hundred of Glen Roy ( Padthaway, Keppoch) * Hundred of Lacepede (West Range, Kingston) * ... [...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] |
Tilley Swamp, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Tilley Swamp 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 of the municipal seat of Kingston SE. The 2016 Australian census, which was conducted in August 2016, reports that the area had a population of 27 people. Tilley Swamp is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Kingston District Council. History Tilley Swamp's name and boundaries were assigned on 3 December 1998. Its name is derived from the swamp of the same name, which itself is derived either from “Thomas Tilley, Manager of Glencoe Run” or William Tilley, an early pastoral leaseholder. A brief history of Tilley Swamp was compiled by the South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning: ... It lies 48 km north of Kingston, SE and the Aborigines knew the district as kopanopintar - kopan - ‘one’ and pintar - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petherick, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Petherick 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 west of the municipal seat in Bordertown. Its boundaries were created on 24 August 2000 and align with those of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Petherick from which its name is derived. The hundred itself was named after Vernon Petherick, a former member of the South Australian Parliament. The majority land use within Petherick is ’primary production’. Land in the locality’s north-west corner occupied by the protected area known as the Gum Lagoon Conservation Park includes zonings for both ‘conservation’ and ‘primary production’. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Petherick had a population of 33 people. Petherick is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcollat, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Marcollat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s Limestone Coast region about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north of the municipal seat in Kingston SE. Boundaries were created in December 1998 for “the long established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Marcollat. Marcollat is located entirely within the Hundred of Marcollat with the hundred’s south-west corner including part of the adjoining locality of Keilira. The locality is served by the following roads - the Riddoch Highway which passes through the locality’s north-west corner from the north-west to the south-east en route to the regional centre of Mount Gambier and Rowney Road, described as a “secondary arterial road”, which passes from the north-east to the south-west en route to Kingston SE. The principal land use within the locality is ‘primary production’ represented by “grazing (cattle and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolumbool, South Australia
Woolumbool is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat in Naracoorte. Woolumbool’s boundaries were created on 3 December 1998 for the “local established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Woolumbool. The locality's boundaries align with those of the Hundred with exception to its southern boundary where the following roads form the boundary - Old Coach Road and Fairview Road. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Woolumbool had a population of 68 people. Woolumbool is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council The Naracoorte Lucindale Council is a Local Government Areas of South Australia, local government area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Limestone Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue Range, South Australia
Avenue Range (formerly Downer) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about south east of the Adelaide city centre. The traditional owners of this region are the Bungandidj (Boandik) people. In 1843 a pastoralist named John ‘Jacky’ White acquired a run of 134 square miles spanning Reedy Creek, Keilira, Crower and Lucindale. He was the first European settler in Avenue Range. Avenue Range was a stop on the Kingston-Naracoorte railway line. The first passenger train to travel on the line from Kingston to Naracoorte was on 1 September 1876 until the last on 28 November 1987 spanning 111 years. The first Avenue school, named Downer School, was built south of the railway line and operated from 1890 to 1901. A new school, built on Council of Education land opened in 1901 and operated until 1955. The locality includes the Cairnbank Homestead and Shearing Shed, which is listed on the South Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
