| Wirrina Cove South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Marina St. Vincent, Wirrina Cove | |||||||||||||||
  Wirrina Cove | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°29′44″S 138°16′06″E / 35.495613°S 138.268250°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 497 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Wirrina Cove”) (2011 census)[1][a] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1999[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5204[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 70 km (43 mi) south west of Adelaide city centre | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Yankalilla | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[4] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mawson[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mayo[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Location[2][3] Climatic data[7] | ||||||||||||||
Wirrina Cove is a locality and holiday resort on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. It is located between the coastal towns of Second Valley and Normanville on Yankalilla Bay. The holiday resort was developed from around 1972, and is located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Adelaide.
There are various overlapping names associated with the Wirrina Cove area recorded as being used by the Kaurna people before the British colonisation of South Australia: Congeratinga (with a creek now given that name), also spelt Kongaratinga, Yarnauwingga, and Anacotilla. The location is also associated with the Dreaming story of creator ancestor Tjilbruke.
Today, features at Wirrina cove include marina named Marina St. Vincent, the New Terry Hotel & Golf Resort, a variety of camping and other holiday accommodation at the Wirrina Cove Holiday Park other accommodation options.
Little Gorge, near which the HMAS Hobart Memorial Lookout is located, is north of the cove, on the road to Normanville.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Wirrina Cove". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Placename Details: Wirrina Cove (locality bounded) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 26 February 2007. SA0040318 (suburb). Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Wirrina Cove Postcode". Australian Postcode Search. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Fleurieu Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ^ "Summary (climate) statistics PARAWA (SECOND VALLEY FOREST AWS)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
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