Port Gibbon, South Australia

Port Gibbon
South Australia
Port Gibbon
Port Gibbon is located in South Australia
Port Gibbon
Port Gibbon
Coordinates33°48′06″S 136°47′59″E / 33.80169297°S 136.79968487°E / -33.80169297; 136.79968487
Population8 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established1916[1]
Postcode(s)5602[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
  • 208 km (129 mi) north-west of Adelaide
  • 17 km (11 mi) south-west of Cowell
LGA(s)District Council of Franklin Harbour[1]
RegionEyre Western[4]
CountyJervois[1]
State electorate(s)Flinders[5]
Federal division(s)Grey[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
22.6 °C
73 °F		 11.5 °C
53 °F		 359.6 mm
14.2 in
Suburbs around Port Gibbon:
Cowell Cowell Cowell
Cowell Port Gibbon Cowell
Spencer Gulf
Cowell
Spencer Gulf		 Spencer Gulf Spencer Gulf
FootnotesDistances[3]
Coordinates[1]
Climate[7]
Adjoining suburbs[1]

Port Gibbon is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula about 208 kilometres (129 miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 17 kilometres (11 miles) south-west of the municipal seat in Cowell.[3]

Port Gibbon began as a town surveyed in 1916 and whose name was derived from Captain J H Gibbon who was the “Senior Nautical Warden of the (South Australian) Marine Board.” Following lobbying of the state government by local residents, a jetty and an associated cutting in the adjoining cliff line were constructed in 1915 to replace a pair of chutes installed by private companies used to move bags of grain to the beach for loading onto small boats for conveyance to larger vessel anchored off the coastline. It operated as a commercial facility until 1950 and as of 2005, had been demolished with the exception of a section on the beach which is used as a shelter. Boundaries for the locality were created in 1998 and include both the Port Gibbon shack site and the Government Town of Port Gibbon.[8][1][9][10]

Port Gibbon consists of land on the coastline with Spencer Gulf which extends from a headland called Point Gibbon (formerly Point Price) in the south for a distance of about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) along the southern end of an unnamed bay whose northern end terminates at a headland called The Knob in the adjoining locality of Cowell. The coastline consists of a series of beaches backing onto a cliff line of “red bluffs composed of Pleistocene alluvium” with heights up to 10 metres (33 ft). A settlement is located at the middle of the bay behind the cliff line. A road runs along the coast both south and north of the settlement.[11][12][13]

Land use in Port Gibbon is divided between primary industry, conservation and residential with the former being represented by “broadacre farming of cereals and livestock”, the second being represented by the zoning of the land adjoining the coastline with Spencer Gulf and the latter consisting of the settlement mentioned above.[14][1]

Port Gibbon is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Franklin Harbour.[6][5][1]

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  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Port Gibbon (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
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  4. ^ "Eyre Western SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
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  9. ^ "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 2009. 23 December 1998. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Place Names of South Australia - G". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Port Gibbon (unpatrolled beach)". Beachsafe. Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA). 28 August 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  12. ^ "Search result for "Port Gibbon (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0040585) with the following data sets selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  13. ^ "WHAT'S IN A NAME?". Evening Journal (Adelaide). Vol. XLIV, no. 12108. South Australia. 21 January 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 10 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "Development Plan, Franklin Harbour Council, Consolidated – 11 February 2016" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 2016. pp. 9, 112–113 and 230–232. Retrieved 10 April 2017.