North Shields, South Australia

North Shields
South Australia
Wheatsheaf Hotel
North Shields is located in South Australia
North Shields
North Shields
Location in South Australia
Coordinates34°37′48″S 135°51′47″E / 34.63000°S 135.86306°E / -34.63000; 135.86306
Population338 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)5607[2]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location252 km (157 mi) from Adelaide
LGA(s)District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
State electorate(s)Flinders
Federal division(s)Grey
Localities around North Shields:
Charlton Gully Poonindie Poonindie
Spencer Gulf
Green Patch North Shields Spencer Gulf
Point Boston
Tootenilla Tiatukia Spencer Gulf

North Shields is a town on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula, overlooking Boston Bay in Spencer Gulf in South Australia.[3] It is 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Port Lincoln.[2]

The Lincoln Highway runs north-south through the town. Port Lincoln Airport is located at North Shields, close to its boundary with Point Boston.[4] A postal receiving office at North Shields opened on 13 August 1908. It was upgraded to a post office in April 1910, but from 2 April 1993 has existed as a Community Postal Agent operating out of the Port Lincoln Caravan Park on Lincoln Highway.[5][6] North Shields formerly had a primary school; however, this closed, and the Port Lincoln Lions Club Hostel was built on the old school site in 1973.[7]

There was a Lutheran Aboriginal mission at North Shields from 1849 to 1853. It was associated with Reverend Clamor Wilhelm Schuermann, who had previously published a dictionary of the local Parnkalla language in 1844. Schuermann moved to the Western District of Victoria in 1853, and the mission was closed and its residents sent to the Anglican mission at Poonindie.[8][9] The surviving remnants of the mission are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as C. W. Schuermann's Mission Site.[10]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "North Shields (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Postcode for North Shields, South Australia - Postcodes Australia Retrieved 15 April 2014
  3. ^ North Shields Demographics (SA) Local Stats Retrieved 3 April 2013
  4. ^ "Search result(s) for North Shields, 5607". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. ^ "North Shields". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. ^ "North Shields CPA". Australia Post. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Port Lincoln Lions Club Hostel". Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Language lost and regained". The Australian. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Missionary Clamor W. Schurmann (1815-1893)". Pirltawardli Research Website. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  10. ^ "Former CW Schuermann's Mission Site (Lutheran)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 13 February 2016.