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
The Yorke Peninsula, known as Guuranda by the original inhabitants, the Narungga people, is a peninsula located northwest and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. The peninsula ...
overlooking the
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...
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
Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide l ...
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
The Division of Grey is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 ...
, the state electoral district of Narungga
Narungga is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution of 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 South Australian sta ...
and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council
The Yorke Peninsula Council is a Local government areas of South Australia, local government area in South Australia. Its boundaries include most of the Yorke Peninsula. The main Council office is at Maitland, South Australia, Maitland; the coun ...
.[
The majority land use within the locality is “]primary production
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.”
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.
:For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adela ...
* Hardwick (disambiguation)
References
External links
Hardwicke Bay Progress Association official website
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Towns in South Australia
Yorke Peninsula
Spencer Gulf