Wangolina, South Australia

Wangolina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is about 252 kilometres (157 miles) south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 144 kilometres (89 miles) south of the centre of Mount Gambier.[1][3][7][8]

Wangolina
South Australia
Wangolina
Coordinates36.942°S 139.818°E / -36.942; 139.818[1]
Established3 December 1998[2]
Postcode(s)5275 [3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Kingston District Council[1]
State electorate(s)MacKillop[4]
Federal Division(s)Barker[5]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
19.3 °C
67 °F
10.3 °C
51 °F
489.4 mm
19.3 in
Suburbs around Wangolina:
Lacepede Bay Sandy Grove
Kingston SE
Kingston SE
Lacepede Bay
Cape Jaffa
Ocean
Wangolina Reedy Creek
Ocean Mount Benson Mount Benson
FootnotesCoordinates[1]
Locations[3]
Climatic data[6]
Adjoining Localities[1]

Boundaries were created in December 1998 for the “long established name” which is derived from Wangolina Station, once an outstation of the nearby Woolmit station but later a property in its own right.[9] The Wangolina drain joins the Butchers Gap Drain which is part of the drainage infrastructure built in the south east of the state since European settlement. Wangolina consists of land along the coastline associated with the Cape Jaffa promontory which its shares with the gazetted locality of Cape Jaffa. Wangolina has coastline frontage to both Lacepede Bay in the north and to the ocean in the south. The Southern Ports Highway passes through the locality from Kingston SE in the north to Robe in the south.[10][1]

The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with a strip of land adjoining the coastline being zoned for conservation.[11][1]

Wangolina is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Kingston District Council.[5][4][1]

History

The traditional owners of the hundred are the Ngarrindjerri peoples.

The first Europeans to the area were Peron in 1903 and Freycinet of the Baudin expedition to Australia 1800 to 1803..

References

  1. "Search result for "Wangolina (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0037185) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (in the District Council of Lacepede)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 3 December 1998. p. 1711. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  3. "Postcode for Wangolina, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  4. "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  6. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Cape Jaffa (The Limestone) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  7. "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF) (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. pp. 35–36. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  8. "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  9. "WOOLMIT STATION". Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). 21 January 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  10. Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, p. 180, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
  11. "Development Plan, Kingston District Council Consolidated – 13 December 2012" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 103, 144, 242–244 and 246–249. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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