__NOTOC__ Erskine is a locality in the Australian state of

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located about north of the state capital of

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and about north-east of the municipal seat in Orroroo. Its boundaries were created on 16 December 1999 for the “long established name” and includes the site of the now-ceased Government Town of Dawlish. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Erskine which it shares with the locality of Orroroo and which was named after

William West-Erskine William Alexander Erskine West-Erskine , M.A., (12 September 1839 – 25 October 1892) was a politician in South Australia. West-Erskine was the eldest son of Rev. William James West, M.A., Rector of Delgany, Ireland, by his marriage with Elmin ...

, a former member of the South Australian Parliament. Land use within the locality is ’primary production’ and is concerned with “agricultural production and the grazing of stock on relatively large holdings.” Some land in its south has been gazetted as a

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known as the Black Rock Conservation Park. Erskine 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

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