Spectacle Lake South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°21′53″S 140°26′04″E / 34.364690°S 140.434390°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 660 (shared with other localities in the ‘State Suburb of Loveday’) (2011 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 12 August 1999[3] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5345[4] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Unincorporated area[1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Hamley[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Chaffey[5] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Barker[6] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Location[4] Coordinates[1] Climate [7] Adjoining localities[1] |
Spectacle Lake is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Riverland on the northern side of the Murray River about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north-east of the Adelaide city centre and about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of Loxton.[4] Its boundaries were created in August 1999 along with the selection of its name which was derived from the Spectacle Lakes, a lake system which is situated within the locality on the floodplain of the Murray River. In 2014, a portion of Spectacle Lake was removed and added to the adjoining locality of Loveday to ensure the full extent of Nynes Island is within Loveday.[1][8] As of 2012, the land use within Spectacle Lake was divided between conservation and agriculture with the former being concerned with the floodplain.[9] Spectacle Lake is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Chaffey and the unincorporated area of South Australia.[1][5][6]
DO HEREBY assign the names OVERLAND CORNER, COBDOGLA, LOVEDAY, BARMERA, WINKIE, KATARAPKO, MONASH, GLOSSOP, BERRI, GERARD and SPECTACLE LAKE to those areas within The Berri Barmera Council (sic)