Sleaford, South Australia

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Sleaford
South Australia
Old shack in Sleaford
Sleaford is located in South Australia
Sleaford
Sleaford
Coordinates34°51′40″S 135°38′49″E / 34.86108418°S 135.64687114°E / -34.86108418; 135.64687114[1]
Population31 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established1871[1]
Postcode(s)5607[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[1]
RegionEyre Western[4]
CountyFlinders[4]
State electorate(s)Flinders[5]
Federal division(s)Grey[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
21.2 °C
70 °F		 11.3 °C
52 °F		 383.2 mm
15.1 in
Suburbs around Sleaford:
Uley
Tulka		 Port Lincoln (water body)
Great Australian Bight Sleaford Lincoln National Park
Great Australian Bight
FootnotesLocation[3]
Coordinates[1]
Climate[7]
Adjoining localities[8][9]

Sleaford is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 260 kilometres (160 miles) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 17 kilometres (11 miles) west of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln.[3][9]

The boundaries of the locality were created in October 2003 for the “long established name” which is derived from Sleaford Bay. The boundary with the locality of Tulka was altered in both 2006 and 2011.[1][10]

Sleaford consists of land at the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula located south of a line running west from the western end of Proper Bay within the natural harbour known as Port Lincoln, and which is bounded from the west to the south-east by the coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the western half of Sleaford Bay and whose eastern boundary is located in the western part of the Jussieu Peninsula.[9][8][11]

The extent of the locality aligns with the cadastral Hundred of Sleaford with the exception of parts of the locality of Tulka. The Hundred of Sleaford covers an area of 190 square kilometres (72 sq mi), was proclaimed in 1871 by Governor Fergusson and which was named after Sleaford Bay.[8][12]

Land use within the locality consists of land zoned for both agricultural and conservation purposes including the following protected areas - the part of the Lincoln National Park located within the Hundred of Sleaford and the Sleaford Mere Conservation Park.[13][8]

Sleaford includes the site of the former Fishery Bay Whaling Station at Fishery Bay on the coast of Sleaford Bay, which is listed in the South Australian Heritage Register.[14]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reported that Sleaford had a population of 46 people.[15]

Sleaford is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.[1][6][5]

The Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex is located in Sleaford.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Search result for "SLEAFORD (LOCB)" (Record no SA0064656)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Sleaford (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c d e "Sleaford, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Search results for "Sleaford LOCB" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Counties'". Loctation SA Map viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  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.
  7. ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics NORTH SHIELDS (PORT LINCOLN AWS)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  8. ^ a b c d "Search result for "Sleaford (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0064656) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas" and "Hundreds"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  9. ^ a b c South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH) (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, pp. Chart 34, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2
  10. ^ Weatherill, J. (16 October 2003), "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 3796, retrieved 16 February 2016
  11. ^ "Search result for "Jussieu Peninsula (PEN)" (Record no SA0033348) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  12. ^ "Search result for "HUNDRED OF SLEAFORD" (Record no SA0061964)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Development Plan - Lower Eyre Peninsula (DC) Consolidated – 19 February 2015" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 95, 97 & 218. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Former Fishery Bay Whaling Station (Near SLEAFORD BAY VIA PORT LINCOLN (sic))". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  15. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Sleaford state suburb". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 September 2018. Edit this at Wikidata