Pine Point, South Australia
| Pine Point South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Beachside shacks at Pine Point | |||||||||||||||
  Pine Point | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°34′05″S137°52′56″E/ 34.5681°S 137.8822°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 88 (SAL2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 24 January 1874 (town) May 1999 (locality)[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5571 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Yorke Peninsula Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[4] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Fergusson[3] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Narungga[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[3] | ||||||||||||||
Pine Point(formerlyMuloowurtie) is a locality in the Australian state ofSouth Australiasouth ofArdrossanon the east side ofYorke Peninsulaadjacent toGulf St Vincent.It was surveyed as a government town in 1883 and proclaimed under the name of Muloowurtie on 24 January 1884.[2]The name was changed to Pine Point in 1940. The boundaries of the locality were created in May 1999 in respect to the "long established name" and includes both "the Pine Point Shack Site" and "the Government Town of Pine Point."[3][7]
See also
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[edit]- ^Australian Bureau of Statistics(28 June 2022)."Pine Point (suburb and locality)".Australian Census 2021 QuickStats.Retrieved28 June2022.
- ^abBray, J.C. (24 January 1884)."Unnamed proclamation re Town of Muloowurtie"(PDF).The South Australian Government Gazette.Government of South Australia. p. 293.Retrieved7 May2019.
- ^abcd"Search result for" Pine Point (LOCB) "(Record no SA0055369) with the following layers selected –" Suburbs and Localities "," Counties "and" Place names (gazetteer) "".Property Location Browser.Government of South Australia. Archived fromthe originalon 12 October 2016.Retrieved7 November2016.
- ^"Yorke and Mid North SA Government region"(PDF).The Government of South Australia.Retrieved28 April2017.
- ^Narungga(Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016.Retrieved1 March2018.
- ^"Federal electoral division of Grey"(PDF).Australian Electoral Commission.Retrieved24 July2015.
- ^"NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED".The Chronicle.Vol. LXXXIII, no. 4, 728. Adelaide. 1 August 1940. p. 13.Retrieved31 August2016– via National Library of Australia.
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