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Penong
__NOTOC__ Penong ( ) is a town and locality on the Nullarbor Plain, in the far west of the state of South Australia located about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide. With no settlements between it and Border Village on the border with Western Australia, 400 km (250 mi) away on the Eyre Highway, it is a popular rest-stop for travellers. The 2016 Australian census recorded that the localities of Penong and the small farming community of Bookabie (including the Scotdesco Aboriginal community), 35 km (22 mi) to Penong's west, had a population of 289 people. Penong is the closest town to the Chadinga Conservation Park. To its south is Cactus Beach, a popular surfing beach on the western side of Point Sinclair; Port Le Hunte – also known as Port Irvine – is on the sheltered eastern side. The Lake MacDonnell gypsum field – the largest in the Southern Hemisphere – is near the coast 15 km (9 mi) to the south. The major port of Cape Theven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookabie, South Australia
Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the town centre of Ceduna. The name was first used for a town located in the Hundred of Magarey which was surveyed in July 1890 and officially named by Governor Kintore on 27 August 1891. The name was recorded by the journalist, Daisy Bates, as being derived from an aboriginal word meaning “bad water” which was used by local aboriginals for a waterhole near the town. Boundaries for the locality including the town were created on 23 October 2003 with some additional “unincorporated land” being added on 26 April 2013. The locality of Bookabie consists of land associated with a section of coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the eastern side of Fowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland. The Eyre Highway passes through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Kintore
The County of Kintore is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. Located on the state's west coast, it was proclaimed in 1890 and named for the Governor Algernon Keith-Falconer. Hundreds The County of Kintore contains the following 8 hundreds, covering approximately the southern half of its total area: * From west to east in the modern locality of Bookabie: Nash, Magarey, Giles * From northwest to southeast in the modern locality of Penong: Cohen, Burgoyne, Bagster, Kevin, Keith See also * Lands administrative divisions of South Australia The lands administrative divisions of South Australia are the cadastral (i.e., comprehensively surveyed and mapped) units of counties and hundreds in South Australia. They are located only in the south-eastern part of the state, and do not c ... References {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub Kintore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chadinga Conservation Park
Chadinga Conservation Park, formerly the Chadinga Conservation Reserve, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Chadinga Dunes on the western side of Lake MacDonnell, in the locality of Penong. The park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area. The conservation park covers of coastal dunes, containing a lake and areas of Mallee scrub. It is commonly called "Tuckamore" by local people. The dunes extend up to 3 km inland and form a habitat for the spinifex hopping mouse. The conservation park has no visitor facilities, although bush camping is permitted. The Dinosaur Ant (''Nothomyrmecia macrops ''Nothomyrmecia'', also known as the dinosaur ant or dawn ant, is an extremely rare genus of ants consisting of a single species, ''Nothomyrmecia macrops''. These ants live in South Australia, nesting in old-growth mallee woodland and ''Eucalyp ...''), noted as a "living fossil", is found within the conservation park. The lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake MacDonnell
Lake MacDonnell is a salt lake on western Eyre Peninsula near the Nullarbor Plain. The closest town is Penong, to the north. It is the site of a former salt mine, now the largest gypsum mine in Australia on the largest gypsum deposit in the southern hemisphere. Salt is still mined but as a secondary product. Ore body The ore body consists of calcrete coastal dunes of the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation in a northwest-trending depression. The gypsum formed during the Holocene period. The gypsum deposit has a one-metre layer of gypsarenite containing 93 percent gypsum ( calcium sulphate). Below that is a layer of selenite containing 94-96% calcium sulphate. The deposit may contain as much as 500-700 million tonnes over an area of . Mine Gypsum has been mined at Lake MacDonnell since 1919. Since 1984 the mine has been owned by Gypsum Resources Australia (GRA), which is owned 50% each by USG Boral (itself a 50–50 joint venture of USG Corporation and Boral) and CSR Lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Highway
Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first European to cross the Nullarbor by land, in 1840–1841. Eyre Highway runs from Norseman in Western Australia, past Eucla, to the state border. Continuing to the South Australian town of Ceduna, it then crosses the top of the Eyre Peninsula before reaching Port Augusta. The construction of the East–West Telegraph line in the 1870s, along Eyre's route, resulted in a hazardous trail that could be followed for interstate travel. A national highway was called for, but the federal government did not see the route as important enough until 1941, when a war in the Pacific seemed imminent. The highway was constructed between July 1941 and June 1942, but was trafficable by January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charra, South Australia
Charra is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat of Ceduna. Charra consists of land in the cadastral units of the hundreds of Horn in the west and Bartlett in the east. The name Charra was first used in 1864 in the name of a pastoral lease known as the “Charra Run” which was held by Messrs. R.B. Smith and W.R. Swan. A government town of the same name was proclaimed on 19 September 1889 and on 16 May 1929 was proclaimed as "ceased to exist". The name was later given to a railway station on the Penong branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway which is located within the present locality. The name was given to the locality were created in January 1999 and whose boundaries include the ceased government town. Three schools are connected historically to the name with the first operating from 1897 to 1902, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellabinna, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Yellabinna is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located to the north of the town of Ceduna in the western part of the state. The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to “the long established local name.” Its name is derived from the use of “Yellabinna” in the names of the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area. Yellabinna is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral districts of Flinders and Giles, and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. The land use within Yellabinna is mainly concerned with the following protected areas - the Boondina Conservation Park, the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area, although the extraction of heavy mineral sands is underway as of 2013 by Iluka Resources at the Jacinth-Ambrosia Mine in the west of the locality. Surrounding localities Yellabinna which is bounded in part to the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cactus Beach
Cactus Beach is a beach located 21 km south of Penong __NOTOC__ Penong ( ) is a town and locality on the Nullarbor Plain, in the far west of the state of South Australia located about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide. With no settlements between it and Border Village on the border with ... in South Australia. It is a renowned surfing location with two left-hand and one right-hand surfing breaks. References Beaches of South Australia Great Australian Bight Nullarbor Plain Surfing locations in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outback Communities Authority
The Outback Communities Authority (OCA) is a statutory authority in South Australia (SA) created under the ''Outback Communities (Administration and Management) Act 2009''. It has been established to "manage the provision of public services and facilities to outback communities" which are widely dispersed across the Pastoral Unincorporated Area which covers almost 60% of South Australia's land area. The authority has its seat at both Port Augusta which is located outside the unincorporated area and at Andamooka. The authority serves an area of , slightly smaller than France. The area has a population of 3,750, of whom 639 are Indigenous Australians, and includes several large pastoral leases and mining operations. The authority's area of responsibility does not include Aboriginal Local Government Areas, the largest of which are Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in the northwest of SA and Maralinga Tjarutja in the west of SA. History '' Wangkangurru (''also known as ''Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Grey
The Division of Grey is an 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 October 1903 and is named for Sir George Grey, who was Governor of South Australia from 1841 to 1845 (and later Prime Minister of New Zealand). Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. The division covers the vast northern outback of South Australia. Highlighting South Australia's status as the most centralised state in Australia, Grey spans , over 92 percent of the state. The borders of the electorate include Western Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastoral Unincorporated Area
A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of Landscape, land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for Urban culture, urban audiences. A ''pastoral'' is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek language, Greek , from , meaning a Pastoral farming, cowherd. Literature Pastoral literature in general Pastoral is a Mode (literature), mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature. Thus, pastoral as a mode occurs in many types of literature (poetry, drama, etc.) as well as genres (most notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
