Coffin Bay

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Coffin Bay
South Australia
View down Coffin Bay Channel
Coffin Bay is located in South Australia
Coffin Bay
Coffin Bay
Coordinates34°37′28″S 135°28′11″E / 34.624406°S 135.469651°E / -34.624406; 135.469651[1]
Population667 (UCL 2021)[2]
Established1952 ("shack area")[3]
1957 (private town)[3]
2003 (locality)[4]
Postcode(s)5607[5]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[1]
RegionEyre Western[1]
CountyFlinders[1]
State electorate(s)Flinders[6]
Federal division(s)Grey[7]
Mean max temp[8] Mean min temp[8] Annual rainfall[8]
21.3 °C
70 °F		 11.3 °C
52 °F		 389.8 mm
15.3 in
Localities around Coffin Bay:
Coffin Bay (waterbody) Wangary Wangary
Coffin Bay (waterbody)
Ocean		 Coffin Bay Wangary
Uley
Ocean Ocean
Uley		 Uley
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

Coffin Bay, originally Coffin's Bay,[9] is a town at the southern extremity of the Eyre Peninsula, a wheat growing area of South Australia.[10]

The town is situated on the western side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula about 46 km from Port Lincoln. The population swells during holiday seasons to more than 4,000 people due to its proximity to the Coffin Bay National Park.[11]

It is a popular location for boating, sailing, swimming, water-skiing, skindiving and wind-surfing, as well as fishing (rock, surf, angling and boat).[12]

The town is named after the bay formed by the Coffin Bay Peninsula and the mainland, and lies on the southeastern shore of the bay. Oyster farming is conducted in the quiet waters of Coffin Bay.[citation needed]

Coffin Bay is in the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula local government area, the state electoral district of Flinders and the federal Division of Grey.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Search results for 'Coffin Bay, LOCB' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Coffin Bay (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Manning, Geoffrey. "South Australian Names – C" (PDF). Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  4. ^ Weatherill, Jay (16 October 2003), "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (within the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula and the City of Port Lincoln)" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 3796, archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2016, retrieved 24 October 2019
  5. ^ a b c "Postcode for Coffin Bay, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  6. ^ "District of Flinder Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics NORTH SHIELDS (PORT LINCOLN AWS) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  9. ^ "The Situation of the New Colony". The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 – 1838). NSW. 11 April 1832. p. 4 Edition: Afternoon. Retrieved 31 July 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  11. ^ Delaney, Jarrad (11 February 2021). "Big increase in park visitors for December". Port Lincoln Times. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  12. ^ UBD street directory Gregory's South Australia and Northern Territory., Universal Business Directories Pty. Ltd., Universal Publishers, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7319-2696-1, OCLC 829213142{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)