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Ungarra
Ungarra is a small swamp town located on the Eyre Peninsula, in the Australian state of South Australia about from the state's capital, Adelaide and around north of Port Lincoln. At the , Ungarra had a population of 241. The name 'Ungarra' is derived from a nearby waterhole of the same name which is located just to the south of the township. It has a Mediterranean climate and receives on average just over 400mm of rainfall every year. Overview Settlers started farming the area in the early 1900s as the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Port Lincoln reached Ungarra in 1909. This provided an incentive for the clearing of what was generally mallee/Melaleuca mix of native vegetation for the growing of wheat. This railway is still in operation and the branchline extended to Buckleboo but now is only operational to Kimba. An important local historic location in the nearby Moody Rock and Tanks where water was collected from a natural outcropping of granite and stored in a large tank fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Butler is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north of the local government seat of Tumby Bay. Its name and boundaries were both adopted and created in 1998. Its name is reported as being collectively derived from the Butler Tanks, a water storage facility, and the Butler Railway Station which are both located within Butler, and from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Butler in which it is located. The name is ultimately derived from Richard Butler, a South Australian politician. A school operated within the current boundaries of the locality from 1905 to 1968. The route of the Cummins to Buckleboo branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway passes through the locality from the south-west to the north-east and includes two railway station sites - Butler and Mount Hill. The principal land use with the locality is agriculture. In 2006, land within the locality was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooker, South Australia
__NOTOC__ } Brooker is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s west on Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat in Tumby Bay. Brooker’s boundaries were created on 23 December 1998 and it was given the ”long established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Brooker. It occupies all of the land in the hundred as well as some land to the immediate north in the Hundred of Nicholls. The Cummins to Kimba branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway passes through the south-east corner of the locality. A site for a railway station named Moreenia is located on the branch line within the locality. Land use within Brooker is zoned as ''primary production'' which typically consists of “agricultural production and the grazing of stock on relatively large holdings.” The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Brooker had a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Jervois
The County of Jervois is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 24 January 1878 and named after William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia from October 1877 to January 1883. Description The county covers the part of the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Spencer Gulf from Murninnie Beach in the north and Cape Hardy in the south, and which extends inland from the coastline for a distance of about in the north, and about in the south. It is bounded by the counties of Le Hunte, Buxton and York to the north (from west to east), by the County of Musgrave to the west and by the County of Flinders to the south. The county includes the towns of Cowell, Arno Bay, Port Neill, Darke Peak, and Rudall. The Lincoln Highway passes along the coastline of the county from the north-east to the south-west, and the Birdseye Highway passes through the county in an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipson, South Australia
Lipson is an historic farming town on the Eyre Peninsula, located only 12 km from Tumby Bay, South Australia. At the Census in Australia#2006, 2006 census, Lipson had a population of 209. Today, Lipson is little more than a historic tourist attraction, with very few permanent Residency (domicile), residents. History The township was named after Thomas Lipson, a naval officer born in 1783, who came to South Australia in 1836 and was appointed collector of customs and harbour master at Port Adelaide. Lipson was once a well established town, having a number of facilities including a post office, church, shop and a school. The school opened in 1881 as Hundred of Yaranyacka, Yaranyacka school and closed in 1950. Nearby mines produced some of the finest talc in the world, but with the closing of the mines, the town gradually died. The district surrounding Lipson is agricultural, with sheep and cereal crops prevalent. The Ungarra, Butler and Lipson Football clubs merged in 1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumby Bay, South Australia
Tumby Bay is a coastal town situated on the Spencer Gulf, on the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, north of Port Lincoln. The town of Tumby Bay is the major population centre of the District Council of Tumby Bay, and the centre of an agricultural district farming cereal crops and sheep, as well as having established fishing and tourism industries. History The bay was first explored and given the name ''Tumby Bay'' by Matthew Flinders in 1802, after a parish in Lincolnshire, England. In 1840 Governor Gawler renamed the bay ''Harvey('s) Bay'' after one other district's early settlers. Then on 15 November 1900 the town of ''Tumby'' was proclaimed by Governor Tennyson, and the name of the bay itself reverted to ''Tumby Bay''. On 14 June 1984 the town officially became known as ''Tumby Bay''. The earliest settlers to the district arrived in the 1840s, and farmed the area with wheat and sheep predominantly. The town soon grew into an important grain storage and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moody, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Moody is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide. Its name and boundaries were both adopted and created in 1978. Its name is derived from the Hundred of Moody, the cadastral unit in which it is located. Moody is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Tumby Bay. See also *List of cities and towns in South Australia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References Towns in South Australia Eyre Peninsula {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Council Of Tumby Bay
The Tumby Bay District Council is a local government area of South Australia covering an area of the North Eastern Eyre Peninsula. It was established in 1906, only six years after the town of Tumby Bay was established, when the district was severed from the former District Council of Lincoln (now the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula) to form the present council. Localities The district encompasses a number of towns and localities, including Brooker, Butler, Cockaleechie, Koppio, Lipson, Moody, Port Neill, Tumby Bay, Ungarra, Yallunda Flat and part of Hincks. Economy The District's economy relies heavily on agriculture and fishing, and to a lesser extent, tourism. The Area has long been a tourist destination, with fishing being a major attraction. A large marina A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cockaleechie, South Australia
Cockaleechie is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was served by a siding on the Eyre Peninsula Railway The Eyre Peninsula Railway is a gauge railway on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Radiating out from the ports at Port Lincoln and Thevenard, it is isolated from the rest of the South Australian railway network. Peaking at 777 kilometr ..., but as it has no bulk silos, has not been used for some time. The town was named for the railway station, which in turn was named for the Cockaleechie Run pastoral lease held by James Anderson since 1860. Anderson was Scottish, and the run was probably named as a variant of cockaleekie, a Scottish soup of cock boiled with leeks. The siding opened in December 1913. References Towns in South Australia Eyre Peninsula {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yallunda Flat, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Yallunda Flat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide. Both its name and boundaries were created in 1998. The name is derived from the local landform of the same name. It includes the following two places which have been gazetted as "unbounded localities" – Kapinka and Urrano. Yallunda Flat is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Tumby Bay. See also *List of cities and towns in South Australia *Eyre Peninsula bushfire The Eyre Peninsula bushfire of 2005, an event also known locally as Black Tuesday and by South Australian Government agencies as the Wangary bushfire, was a Bushfires in Australia, bushfire that occurred during January 2005 on the lower part of ... References Towns in South Australia Eyre Peninsula {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula Railway
The Eyre Peninsula Railway is a gauge railway on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Radiating out from the ports at Port Lincoln and Thevenard, it is isolated from the rest of the South Australian railway network. Peaking at 777 kilometres in 1950, today only one 60 kilometre section remains open. It is operated by Aurizon. History The Eyre Peninsula Railway was built and operated by the South Australian Railways (SAR). As with many other early narrow-gauge railways in South Australia, the Eyre Peninsula lines started out as isolated lines connecting small ports to the inland, opening up the country for settlement and economic life including export of grain and other produce in an environment with few roads and only horse-drawn road vehicles. The railway has always been isolated from the main network. A proposal to link it with the rest of the network at Port Augusta was rejected in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. The first 67 kilometres from Port Lincoln to Cummin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moody Tank Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Moody Tank Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula about north-east of Cummins. In 2007, the conservation park was described by its managing authority as follows: Moody Tank Conservation Park was proclaimed on 7 December 2006 under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'', to protect and conserve endemic, remnant vegetation and a site of heritage significance. The park was proclaimed without access under State mining legislation. Moody Tank Conservation Park contains four major vegetation communities, one of which (''Eucalyptus peninsularis'', '' E. leptophylla'' and '' E. pileata'' open mallee) is listed as threatened in South Australia. The park also protects numerous plant species of conservation significance and provides suitable habitat for the nationally vulnerable Granite Mudwort (''Limosella granitica''). The conservation park is located in the locality of Ungarra and be accessed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koppio, South Australia
Koppio is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north of Port Lincoln, and within the Tod River catchment area. While long-established agricultural activities dominate (including sheep, cattle and buffalo grazing and wheat cropping) the region is also prospective for graphite and iron ore. The ''Koppio Smithy Museum'' is a local tourist attraction replete with buildings and artifacts representing the early pioneer heritage of Eyre Peninsula. Mining and mineral exploration Companies actively exploring the area early in the 21st century included Eyre Iron Pty Ltd (a joint venture of Centrex Metals) and Lincoln Minerals. Eyre Iron's proposed Fusion Magnetite Project was the most advanced prospective mine development project in the area. Graphite was first mined in the area in 1866. The ''Koppio Graphite Mine'' originally operated in the early 1900s and was revisited between 1941 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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