False Bay, South Australia (locality)

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the adjoining bay, see False Bay, South Australia.

False Bay
South Australia
False Bay is located in South Australia
False Bay
False Bay
Coordinates32°56′35″S 137°39′31″E / 32.94312258°S 137.65861686°E / -32.94312258; 137.65861686
Population0 (SAL 2021)[1]
Established2010[2]
Postcode(s)5601[2]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)City of Whyalla
Pastoral Unincorporated Area[3][4]
State electorate(s)Giles[5]
Federal division(s)Grey[6]
Mean max temp[7] Mean min temp[7] Annual rainfall[7]
23.8 °C
75 °F		 11.5 °C
53 °F		 267.1 mm
10.5 in
Localities around False Bay:
Whyalla Barson Whyalla Barson
Cultana		 Cultana
Whyalla Barson False Bay Port Bonython
Whyalla Barson Spencer Gulf
FootnotesAdjoioning localities[3]

False Bay is a locality in South Australia on the north east corner of Eyre Peninsula located north of the city of Whyalla overlooking the bay in Spencer Gulf known as False Bay.

The locality's name is derived from this bay. The locality was first established in 2010 for a "long established name".[2][3]

False Bay is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles and is partly within the local government area of the City of Whyalla and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.[4][5][6]

The land within False Bay which is part of the City of Whyalla jurisdiction is zoned as "coastal conservation" while land within the Pastoral Unincorporated Area is zoned as "remote areas", a zoning type concerned with balancing development with conservation needs, in response to the proximity of industrial facilities such as the Whyalla Steelworks to "coastal environments, swamps and waterways" both within and adjoining the locality.[4][8]

False Bay is within the extent of the wetland of national importance known as "Upper Spencer Gulf" which includes mangrove and samphire areas from near Whyalla on the west side of Spencer Gulf to Port Broughton on the Gulf's east coast.[9]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "False Bay (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c "Search result for "False Bay (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0022371)". Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Cultana and Adjoining Locality Boundries [sic] (PDF) (Map). Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Rack Plan 1074. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ a b c "Development Plan, Land Not Within a Council Area Eyre, Far North, Riverland and Whyalla Consolidated – 18 October 2012". Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure. 2012. pp. 16, 111 & 349. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  5. ^ a b "District of Giles Background Profile". ELECTORAL COMMISSION SA. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  7. ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Whyalla Aero (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Development Plan, Whyalla Council, Consolidated – 19 February 2015". Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure. 2015. pp. 207 & 227. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  9. ^ Eyles, Kathy; Larmour, Geoff; Young, Sarah; Australia. Environment Australia; Natural Heritage Trust (Australia). National Wetlands Program (2001), A Directory of important wetlands in Australia (PDF) (3rd ed.), Environment Australia, p. 77, ISBN 978-0-642-54721-7