The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula is a

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located on

Eyre Peninsula The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named aft ...

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 ...

. The district covers the southern tip of the peninsula, except for the small area taken up by the

City of Port Lincoln The City of Port Lincoln is a Local government in Australia, local government area located on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It consists of one suburb - Port Lincoln, South Australia, Port Lincoln. It is surrounded on ...

. The main council offices are in

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, with a branch office in

Port Lincoln Port Lincoln is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located a ...

, even though Port Lincoln is actually in its own

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, not encompassed by the council.

History

The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula traces its history back to 1880 when a district council was first created for the

area. The District Council of Lincoln was established in on 1 July 1880. Its boundaries were exactly those of the Hundred of Lincoln and included

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and

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islands. Council members, listed as "Messrs. William Brooke Carlin, Gustave Möller, John Garrett, Henry Walter Owen, and Robert Duddlestone", first met at the Pier Hotel in July of that year and William Carlin was elected chairman. The new district council was greatly expanded less than eight years later by the enactment of the ''

District Councils Act 1887 The District Councils Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of South Australia. It received assent on 9 December 1887, and its provisions came into effect when proclaimed by Governor William C. F. Robinson on 5 January 1888. The legislation intr ...

'' which saw the boundaries of the district extended to cover the entire

County of Flinders The County of Flinders is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. The county covers the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula “bounded on the north by a line connecting Point Drummond with Cape Burr, and on all other sides by the ...

(southern Eyre Peninsula up to a line north of

) in January 1888. The boundaries were extended again in 1890 when it gained the hundreds of Kiana,

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and Shannon to the north in the

County of Musgrave The County of Musgrave is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 22 June 1876 and named after Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of South Australia ...

. In 1906, the north east of the district was removed to form the new

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 seve ...

and, in 1921, Port Lincoln itself was severed to create the Corporate Town of Port Lincoln. The district regained an area from the Corporate Town in 1935 and, in 1936, the District Council of Lincoln controlled thirteen hundreds, amounting to approximately 1,300,000 acres; its population in that year was estimated at 1,486. The district boundaries underwent further alterations in 1981 and 1982. In 1988, it assumed its current name when the District Council of Lincoln was renamed the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.

Economy

The area's

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is reliant mostly on

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, with

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and

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being prominent in the district, as in much of the

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and

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are a large part of the economy also, with Coffin Bay

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gaining statewide recognition. The district, particularly

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towns such as

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are ever popular with tourists, with fishing and a variety of other water based activities a major attraction. The

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is also a major attraction, as well as an area of natural

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Localities

The district has two major towns;

and

, but the district covers a large area, including a large number of rural localities:

, Charlton Gully, Coomunga, Coulta, Duck Ponds, Edillilie, Farm Beach,

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, Hawson, Kapinnie, Karkoo, Kellidie Bay, Kiana,

Lincoln National Park Lincoln National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln. It consists of a mainland area on the Jussieu Pe ...

, Little Douglas,

Louth Bay Louth Bay (formerly Laurence) is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after the bay named by Matthew Flinders on 26 February 1802 which itself is derived from a place in Lincolnshire. At the 2006 census, L ...

, Mount Drummond, Mount Dutton Bay, Mount Hope,

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, Pearlah, Point Boston,

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, Tiatukia, Tootenilla, Tulka,

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, Wangary, Wanilla, Whites Flat, Whites River, and Yeelanna, and part of

Councillors

Chairmen and mayors

* James O'Shanahan (1902–1904, 1914–1938) * William Germain Morgan (1938-1949) * Percival (Barney) Woods (1949-1957) * Richard Baxter Stuart Sinclair (1957-1970) * Clifford Philip Morgan (1970-1974) * Victor Lewis Gerschwitz (1974–1975) * Thomas George Secker (1975–1981) * John Francis Hayman (1981–1985) * Max Hill (2006–2009) * Julie Low (2009–present) * Jo-Ann Quigley (2018–Present)

References

External links

District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
{{DEFAULTSORT:District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula Lower Eyre Peninsula Eyre Peninsula 1880 establishments in Australia