| Port Augusta West Port Augusta, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 32°29′03″S 137°45′32″E / 32.4842°S 137.7589°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 4,046 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1865[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5700[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 14 m (46 ft)[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Port Augusta | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Far North | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[7] | ||||||||||||||
Port Augusta West is a suburb of Port Augusta, South Australia.
However, it has a separate early colonial history to Port Augusta, because it is on the Eyre Peninsula, while the rest of Port Augusta is on the east side of Spencer Gulf. It was not until 1926 that a bridge was built across the head of the Spencer Gulf to connect them, replacing a punt.[8]
The Corporate Town of Port Augusta West was gazetted on 6 October 1887,[9] and only merged into the Corporate Town of Port Augusta on 28 April 1932.[8]
Port Augusta West contains the junction of the Eyre Highway (to Eyre Peninsula and Western Australia), Stuart Highway (to the Far North and Northern Territory), and Augusta Highway (to Adelaide).
- ^ a b "Search result for "Port Augusta West (SUB)" (Record no SA0040491)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Port Augusta West (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Port Augusta West Postcode". Australian Postcode Search. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Port Augusta Aero (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ^ "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ Proposed Locality Boundaries for Pastoral Areas (PDF) (Map). Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. 31 October 2012. Rack Plan 951. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ a b "GATEWAY TO THE WEST". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 7 July 1927. p. 13. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. p. 11.
