Wallerberdina,_South_Australia

Wallerberdina, South Australia

Wallerberdina, South Australia

Suburb of Pastoral Unincorporated Area, South Australia

Wallerberdina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 345 kilometres (214 mi) north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the town of Hawker.[1]

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It is located on the plain between Lake Torrens in the west and the Flinders Ranges in the east. Its boundaries approximate those of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Warrakimbo.[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Banggarla peoples.[6]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wallerberdina and two adjoining localities had no people living within the boundaries of the geographic classification known as the State Suburb of Wallerberdina.[2]

Wallerberdina is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state government region of the Far North.[4][1][3] Plans to build a nuclear waste dump in the area were defeated in 2019 following community opposition.[7]

Mount Eyre

The site of the government town of Mount Eyre (31°55′05″S 138°01′29″E) is located at the south end of the locality on the north-west side of the route of the Marree railway line. It was surveyed during January 1863 and the land sale began on 14 May 1863. Its name is derived from Mount Eyre which was "the northernmost point of Eyre's 1839 expedition and named by Governor Gawler on 11 July 1839."[8][9]

References

Notes

  1. For the 2016 census, the State Suburb of Wallerberdina consisted of the localities of Wallerberdina and Yadlamalka, and part of the northern end of Yarrah.[2][1]

Citations

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    "Search results for 'Wallerberdina, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Government Towns' 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'postcodes' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
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    Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wallerberdina (state suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 4 October 2019. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. [3]
    "District of Giles Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Hawker (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. [6]
    This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, by David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. This map also divides Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania).
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    Commons Librarian (22 December 2023). "Campaigns that Changed South Australia". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
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    "Search result for "Mount Eyre, GTWN" with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Government Towns" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  9. [9]
    Manning, Geoffrey. "South Australian Names - E" (PDF). Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2018.


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