| Tintinara South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Tintinara | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°53′0″S 140°03′0″E / 35.88333°S 140.05000°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 277 (UCL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1850s | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5266 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 20 m (66 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 190 km (118 mi) SE of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | The Coorong District Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | MacKillop | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[2] | ||||||||||||||
Tintinara is a town located in the Murray and Mallee region[3] of the South East of South Australia.
The town is situated on the Dukes Highway and the Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. It is in The Coorong District Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral district of MacKillop and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Barker. At the 2016 Australian census, the town and district had a population of 527.[4]
The origin of the name has been debated. One possibility is that a local Aboriginal man was named Tin-Tin, and the 'ara' was appended to form the place name, or that one of the Boothbys' Aboriginal employees was named Tintinara.[5][6] Geoff Manning suggests that the name may have derived from an Aboriginal word, tinlinyara, the stars in Orion's belt.[7]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tintinara (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ "Search result for "Tintinara (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0035206) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and "Government Towns"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ "Limestone Coast, South Australian Government Region" (PDF). The Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- ^ "2016 Census QuickStats: Tintinara". quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ Day, Alfred N (1915). Names of South Australian Railway Stations with Their Meanings and Derivations (PDF). Adelaide: South Australian Railways [R E E Rogers, Government Printer]. p. 28.
- ^ "Steam Applied to Agriculture". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 2 October 1905. p. 6. Retrieved 5 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Geoff Manning. "Place Names of South Australia: Tintinara". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
