Petherick, South Australia
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__NOTOC__ Petherick is a locality in the Australian state of
South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
located in the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of
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and about west of the municipal seat in Bordertown. Its boundaries were created on 24 August 2000 and align with those of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Petherick from which its name is derived. The hundred itself was named after Vernon Petherick, a former member of the
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. The majority land use within Petherick is ’primary production’. Land in the locality’s north-west corner occupied by the
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known as the
Gum Lagoon Conservation Park Gum Lagoon Conservation Park (formerly the Gum Lagoon National Park) is an 8765 ha protected area about 40 km south-west of Keith, South Australia, Keith in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. It lies about 20 km inland ...
includes zonings for both ‘conservation’ and ‘primary production’. Didicoolum station is located in the locality of Petherick. The
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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Petherick had a population of 33 people. Petherick is located within the federal division of
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, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the
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