| Goyder South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Goyder | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°04′55″S 138°16′27″E / 34.0819°S 138.2741°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 24 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5461 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 107 km (66 mi) N of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Wakefield Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Narungga | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[2] | ||||||||||||||
Goyder (33°58′S 138°19′E / 33.967°S 138.317°E; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North[2] situated in the central east of the cadastral Hundred of Goyder.[2][3] It was named for the hundred (proclaimed 1862) which was in turn named for George Goyder, Surveyor General of South Australia at the time.
The locality is bounded on the west by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The Black Range stretches north–south through the locality from the foot of Mount Templeton outside the northern boundary of the locality. Similarly, the Bismark Valley (thought to be named in jest by early settler families of German origin for Otto von Bismarck) runs north to south through the centre of the locality.[4]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Goyder (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Placename Details: Goyder". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. SA0027239. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Goyder". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. SA0027264. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
Derivation of Name: George Woodroffe Goyder Surveyor General; Other Details: Area 99 1/2 square miles. George Woodroffe Goyder, CMG, Surveyor General.
- ^ "Placename Details: Bismark Valley". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. SA0046566. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
[...] Probably named by the German settlers as nearly all the pioneer's farming in the gully were owned by people of German origin (including the Dohse, Lange, Baum & Zerk families), who had first settled in the Barossa and later moved when this land opened up. The settlers had no known affinity with or for Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany at that time, & according to oral family tradition it seems that in adopting the name they were having a joke on themselves. Bismark Gully is a long valley running generally south from the foot of Mt Templeton [...]
