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Laffer, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Laffer 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. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Laffer which it occupies along with the locality of Mount Charles. Land use within Laffer is ’primary production’. This includes land at the locality’s southern boundary which is occupied by the protected area known as the Gum Lagoon Conservation Park. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Laffer had a population of 48 people. Laffer is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council Tatiara District Council is a local government area located in south-eastern South Australia. The name Tatiara is said to mea ... [...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 miles ... [...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] |
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] |
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 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gum Lagoon Conservation Park
Gum Lagoon Conservation Park (formerly the Gum Lagoon National Park) is an 8765 ha protected area about 40 km south-west of Keith in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. It lies about 20 km inland from the southern end of the Coorong. It contains an isolated block of mallee woodland important for malleefowl conservation. History Some 2700 ha formed the core of the reserve when it was originally proclaimed as Gum Lagoon National Park in August 1970. It became the Gum Lagoon Conservation Park in 1972 upon the proclamation of the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''. It gradually expanded in area through subsequent ad hoc and opportunistic land acquisitions.DEH, 2005, page 2 Description The conservation park is located on land in the gazetted localities of Laffer, Petherick and Tilley Swamp. It contains ranges of calcarenite dunes and interdunal flats, with slow-moving surface water drainage systems and blocks of remnant vegetation. The vegeta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organizations involved. Generally speaking though, protected areas are understood to be those in which human presence or at least the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood, non-timber forest products, water, ...) is limited. The term "protected area" also includes marine protected areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and transboundary protected areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes. There are over 161,000 protected areas in the world (as of October 2010) with more added daily, representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world's land surface area. As of 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Laffer
The Hundred of Laffer is a Hundred of the County of Cardwell (South Australia) centered on Laffer, South Australia. It is in the Limestone Coast region south east of Adelaide, South Australia Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater A .... References Laffer {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunbury, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Bunbury 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 Bunbury Homestead which is located within the locality’s boundaries. The majority land use within Bunbury is ’primary production’ which is concerned with “agricultural production.” Some land extending from its centre to its western boundary which is occupied by the Bunbury Conservation Reserve is zoned for ‘conservation’. Bunbury 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 region. The district cover mostly rural areas with smal ... [...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] |
Bordertown, South Australia
Bordertown, formerly Border Town, is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's east near the state border with Victoria about east of the state capital of Adelaide. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line cross the Tatiara Creek between Adelaide and Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. Bordertown is the commercial and administrative centre of the Tatiara District Council. ''Tatiara'' is the local Aboriginal word for "Good Country". History Bordertown was established in 1852 when a direct route across the Ninety Mile Desert was being planned for gold escorts from the Victorian goldfields to Adelaide. Police Inspector Alexander Tolmer was instructed to create a town as close as practical to the border. Tolmer was upset when the town was not named after him, but that was made up for by naming several sites around Bordertown after him, such as Tolmer Park and Tolmer Takeaway. Land was first offered for sale in the new governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willalooka, South Australia
Willalooka is a small service town and locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. it is located on the Riddoch Highway between Keith and Padthaway. Christmas Rocks Conservation Park is north of the town adjacent to the highway. Services in the town include the Country Fire Service, a community hall, tavern, fuel and general store. The dominant industry in the area is farming, especially sheep. Near Willalooka is the ''Darwent Waterhole,'' called by the local Aborigines ''kongal,'' meaning 'water mallee'. South Australian Names Joseph Darwent, an American steamship owner who took up several pastoral properties near Willalooka in the 1870s. Not to be confused with Joseph Darwent (c. 1824 – 20 October 1872), an English accountant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
