Coles South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 37°12′45″S 140°27′39″E / 37.212412°S 140.460758°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 35 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 3 December 1998[1][3] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5272[4] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Naracoorte Lucindale Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Limestone Coast[1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Robe[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | MacKillop[5] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Barker[6] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Locations[4] Adjoining localities[1] |
Coles is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about 316 kilometres (196 mi) south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 39 kilometres (24 mi) south-west of the municipal seat of Naracoorte.[4]
Boundaries for the locality were created and was given the name of Coles on 3 December 1998. The name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Coles in which the locality is located.[1] The hundred itself was named after Jenkin Coles who was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1875 to 1911.[8]
Coles is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council.[6][5][1]
In January 2022 a bushfire burning within the locality resulted in the death of a CFS volunteer Louise Hincks.[9]