__NOTOC__ Duck Ponds is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the

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in the state's west about west of the state capital of

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, about south of the municipal seat of

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and about west of the city of

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. Its boundaries were created on 16 October 2003 for the "long established name". On 22 December 2011, a portion was added to the adjoining locality of Tulka. The Flinders Highway forms part of the locality's north-eastern boundary with the locality of

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while the highway's heavy vehicle by-pass, the Western Approach Road, passes through the eastern side of the locality from the north-west on its way to the port facility in Port Lincoln. The

Eyre Peninsula Railway The Eyre Peninsula Railway is a track gauge, gauge railway on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Radiating out from the ports at Port Lincoln and Thevenard, South Australia, Thevenard, it is isolated from the rest of the Rail transport in ...

, which also passes through Duck Ponds in an alignment similar to the by-pass road, forms part of its southern boundary and hosts two railway stations: Grantham in the south, established as Five Mile Siding about 1942, and Ducks Ponds in the locality's centre, established in 1911. The

Port Lincoln Prison Port Lincoln Prison is an Australian prison on the Eyre Peninsula located in Duck Ponds, South Australia about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the regional city of Port Lincoln. It was opened in 1966. Sheep and ...

occupies land in the locality's north-east corner while the Kathai Conservation Park, a

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, is located in its south-east corner. Land use within Duck Ponds principally consists of agricultural activities such as broadacre cropping and grazing. Land use is subject to statutory control to manage the

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system existing within Duck Ponds and adjoining localities. Duck Ponds is located within the federal division of

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, the state electoral district of

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and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.

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