| Pinkawillinie South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Pinkawillinie | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°00′S 136°06′E / 33.0°S 136.1°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 51 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5641 | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Giles | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Pinkawillinie is a locality in the north of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is a rural grain and grazing area in marginal country near Goyder's Line within the District Council of Kimba. It draws its name from the cadastral Hundred bearing the same name which is mostly included in the modern bounded locality, however the locality includes several other Hundreds and the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park,[2] all within the Kimba region.
Settlement in this area was spurred by the completion of the railway line to Port Lincoln, which reached Buckleboo in 1926.[3]
A school was approved in 1929.[4] It was originally intended that the residents would build it with assistance of a loan from the Government, however a poor season meant they were unable to proceed, so a portable building was supplied,[5] and a head teacher announced for 1930.[6] The school is now closed. In the 1950s it was only a junior primary school, with children transported to Kimba for higher primary school.[7]
In November 2015, Pinkiwillinie was identified as one of six sites short-listed for a possible low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste repository in Australia.[8]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Pinkawillinie (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Placename Details: Pinkawillinie (LOCB)". Land Services, Government of South Australia. 6 May 2013. SA0055553. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ Knife, Peter (2006) Peninsula pioneer : a history of the railways of Eyre Peninsula and their role in the early settlement and development of the region Wahroonga, N.S.W. : P. Knife. ISBN 0-9757835-0-5
- ^ "STATE SCHOOLS". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 7 February 1929. p. 11. Retrieved 13 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "School for Pinkawillinie". The News (HOME ed.). Adelaide. 24 April 1929. p. 8. Retrieved 13 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Teachers For Country Schools". The Observer. Adelaide. 28 December 1929. p. 19. Retrieved 13 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Advertising". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 7 January 1952. p. 13. Retrieved 13 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Starick, Paul (13 November 2015). "Three South Australian sites short-listed for national nuclear waste dump". The Advertiser. News Corp.
