Port Arthur, South Australia

Port Arthur is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Yorke Peninsula at the northern end of Gulf St Vincent about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 9 kilometres (5.6 miles) north of the town of Port Wakefield.[3]

Port Arthur
South Australia
Port Arthur
Coordinates34°08′56″S 138°03′49″E
Population366 (shared with other localities in the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’) (2011 census)[1][2][lower-alpha 1]
Established1999[2]
Postcode(s)5552[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Yorke Peninsula Council[4]
RegionYorke and Mid North[5]
CountyDaly[2]
State electorate(s)Narungga[6]
Federal Division(s)Grey[7]
Localities around Port Arthur:
Kulpara South Hummocks Beaufort
Kainton
Kulpara		 Port Arthur Beaufort
Port Wakefield
Kainton Gulf St Vincent Port Wakefield
FootnotesAdjoining localities[2]

Its boundaries were created in May 1999 for the "long established name."[2] Port Arthur was used from 1861 to 1863 as a minor port for an enterprise moving passengers between Port Adelaide and the towns of Moonta and Wallaroo using the steam tug, Eleanor, and coach services operated by both "Mr Opie's Horse Conveyances" and W. Rounsevell.[8]

Port Arthur is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.[9][4][7][6]

See also

Notes and references
Notes
  1. For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Clinton (SA)’ consisted of the localities of Clinton, Clinton Centre, Kainton and Port Arthur.[2]
Citations
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Clinton (SA)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  2. "Search result for "PORT ARTHUR (LOCB)" (Record no SA0040462) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities' and "Counties"". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  3. "Port Arthur Postcode". Australian Postcode Finder. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. "Development Plan – Yorke Peninsula Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 232 & 341. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  5. "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  6. Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  7. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  8. Collins, Neville C (2005), The jetties of South Australia : past and present, Neville Collins, p. 98, ISBN 978-0-9580482-2-4
  9. "New Ward Structure 2014". Yorke Peninsula Council. Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2015.


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