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| Gawler South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 McKinlay Monument, Gawler, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
  Gawler | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°35′53″S 138°44′42″E / 34.59806°S 138.74500°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 28,562 (UCL 2021)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1839 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5118 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 75 m (246 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 40 km (25 mi) N of Adelaide city centre | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Town of Gawler | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Light | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Spence | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[3] | ||||||||||||||
Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler.[4] It is about 40–44 km (25–27 mi) north of the state capital, Adelaide, and is close to the major wine producing district of the Barossa Valley. Topographically, Gawler lies at the confluence of two tributaries of the Gawler River, the North and South Para rivers, where they emerge from a range of low hills.
Historically a semi-rural area, Gawler has been swept up in Adelaide's growth in recent years, and is now considered by some as an outer northern suburb of Adelaide. It is counted as a suburb in the Outer Metro region of the Greater Adelaide Planning Region.[5]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Gawler (SA) (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Gawler (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ "Search result for " Gawler (Suburb)" (Record no SA0025581) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and "Local Government Areas"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ History of Gawler 'Shawfactors'
- ^ Welcome to The 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide SA Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
