Bookabie, South Australia

Bookabie
South Australia
Bookabie is located in South Australia
Bookabie
Bookabie
Coordinates31°50′36″S 132°40′31″E / 31.843288°S 132.675268°E / -31.843288; 132.675268[1]
Population289 (shared with Penong) (2016 census)[2][a]
Established27 August 1891 (town)
23 October 2003 (locality)[3][4]
Postcode(s)5690[5]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Pastoral Unincorporated Area[1]
RegionEyre Western[6]
CountyKintore[1]
State electorate(s)Flinders[7]
Federal division(s)Grey[8]
Mean max temp[9] Mean min temp[9] Annual rainfall[9]
21.5 °C
71 °F		 12.3 °C
54 °F		 300.2 mm
11.8 in
Suburbs around Bookabie:
Fowlers Bay Mitchidy Moola
Yellabinna
Nanbona
Yellabinna		 Yellabinna
Fowlers Bay Bookabie Penong
Great Australian Bight Great Australian Bight Penong
FootnotesLocation[5]
Adjoining localities[1]

Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 648 kilometres (403 miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 103 kilometres (64 miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna.[1][5]

The name was first used for a town located in the Hundred of Magarey which was surveyed in July 1890 and officially named by Governor Kintore on 27 August 1891.[1][3] The name was recorded by the journalist, Daisy Bates, as being derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “bad water” which was used by local Aboriginal people for a waterhole near the town. Boundaries for the locality including the town were created on 23 October 2003 with some additional “unincorporated land” being added on 26 April 2013.[10][1]

The locality of Bookabie consists of land associated with a section of coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the eastern side of Fowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland.[1] The Eyre Highway passes through the locality in an east-west direction.[1] As of 2012, the majority land use within the locality was agriculture while the land adjoining the coastline in the south being zoned for conservation.[11]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that the localities of Bookabie and Penong shared a population of 289 people.[2][1]

Bookabie is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.[1][8][7]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Search results for 'Bookabie, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Penong (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 January 2019. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Bray, J.C. (27 August 1891). "Untitled proclamation re the Town of Bookabie" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. pp. 487–488. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  4. ^ Weatherill, Jay (23 October 2001). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 3859. Retrieved 27 January 2019. ...assign the names YUNTA, BLINMAN, BOOKABIE, GLENDAMBO, YALATA, KINGOONYA, OLARY, INNAMINCKA, and MANNA HILL to those areas...
  5. ^ a b c "Bookabie, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Eyre and Western South Australian Government Region" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  7. ^ a b "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  9. ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics FOWLERS BAY (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Bookabie, nomenclature". Place names of South Australia. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  11. ^ "Development Plan, Land Not Within a Council Area Eyre, Far North, Riverland and Whyalla – 18 October 2012" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 2012. pp. 101, 110, 161 and 200–203. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.


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