Point Sturt

Point Sturt
South Australia
Original stone settlers cottage at Nanda Farm, Point Sturt (c. 1855)
Point Sturt is located in South Australia
Point Sturt
Point Sturt
Coordinates35°29′32″S 138°58′07″E / 35.492196°S 138.96868°E / -35.492196; 138.96868[1]
Population69 (shared with part of Milang) (2016 census)[2][a]
Established1850s (private sub-division)
31 August 2000 (locality)[1]
Postcode(s)5256[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACDT (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Alexandrina Council[1]
RegionFleurieu and Kangaroo Island[4]
CountyHindmarsh[1]
State electorate(s)Hammond[5]
Federal division(s)Mayo[6]
Localities around Point Sturt:
Milang Lake Alexandrina Lake Alexandrina
Clayton Bay Point Sturt Lake Alexandrina
Clayton Bay Hindmarsh Island
Mundoo Island
Lake Alexandrina
FootnotesLocations[1][3]
Adjoining localities[1]

Point Sturt is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Sturt Peninsula on the west side of Lake Alexandrina about 71 kilometres (44 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 17 kilometres (11 mi) east of the municipal seat of Goolwa.[1][3]

It is made up of rural living land holdings, primary production and grazing land. The beginning of Point Sturt Road is about 4 km from Clayton Bay and 9 km south of Milang, South Australia. At the end of Point Sturt road there are views across Lake Alexandrina to Raukkan.[7]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Search result for "Point Sturt, LOCB" with the following datasets selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties", "Local Government Areas", "SA Government Regions" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian government. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Point Sturt (state suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 17 September 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c "Postcode for Point Sturt, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Fleurieu Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  5. ^ Hammond (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  7. ^ Google (22 December 2018). "Streetview from the end of Point Sturt" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 22 December 2018.


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