Hardwicke Bay is a locality in the
Australian state
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of
South Australia
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located on the west coast of
Yorke Peninsula overlooking the
bay
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also named
Hardwicke Bay
Hardwicke Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula in Spencer Gulf.
Extent & description
Hardwicke Bay is located on the west coast of the Yorke Peninsula within Spencer Gulf in Sou ...
about west of the
Adelaide city centre
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and about north of the
town of Warooka.
[
The boundaries of the locality were created on 27 May 1999 for the “long established name” and including the two ]shack
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Unlike huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually r ...
sites known respectively as the “original shack site” and the “Moorowie Shack Site.”Division of Grey
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, the state electoral district of Narungga
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and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.[
The majority land use within the locality is “]primary production
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.”
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
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Organizations
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*Hardwick (disambiguation) Hardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England—this is from the Old English pre-7th century word "heorde", meaning a "herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which w ...
References
External links
Hardwicke Bay Progress Association official website
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Towns in South Australia
Yorke Peninsula
Spencer Gulf