Witchelina South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 30°07′15″S 137°54′44″E / 30.12089008°S 137.91211129°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 2013[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5731[3] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location |
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LGA(s) | Pastoral Unincorporated Area[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart[4] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey[5] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Coordinates[1] |
Witchelina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 32 kilometres (20 miles) to the north-west of the town of Leigh Creek and about 487 kilometres (303 miles) north of the Adelaide city centre.[6] The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to “the long established local name.” Its name is derived from the former pastoral lease of the same name.[1] Witchelina is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state's Far North region.[2][4][5][7] The land use within Witchelina is concerned with the use of the former pastoral lease as a private protected area also known as Witchelina which has fully occupied its extent as of 2010.[6][8]