Gosse, South Australia

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Gosse
South Australia
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Gosse
Coordinates 35°47′39″S136°58′47″E / 35.794150°S 136.979590°E / -35.794150; 136.979590
Population407 (shared with other localities within the “State Suburb of Vivonne Bay”) (2011 census) [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Established1961 [2]
Postcode(s) 5223 [3]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location175 km (109 mi) south-west of Adelaide
LGA(s) Kangaroo Island Council [2]
Region Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island [4]
County Carnarvon [2]
State electorate(s) Mawson [5]
Federal division(s) Mayo [6]
Mean max tempMean min tempAnnual rainfall
22.1 °C
72 °F
11.5 °C
53 °F
534.0 mm
21 in
Suburbs around Gosse:
De Mole River De Mole River Middle River
Cape Borda
Flinders Chase
Gosse Duncan
Newland
Flinders Chase Karatta Newland
FootnotesDistances [3]
Coordinates [2]
Climate [7] Adjoining localities [2]

Gosse is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about 175 kilometres (109 miles) south-west of the state capital of Adelaide city centre. [3]

The locality includes a part of the Hundred of Gosse which was proposed as the site of a soldier settlement town during the 1950s. A site was surveyed in June 1961 and gazetted as a government town in September 1961 with the name Gosse which is derived from Sir James Hay Gosse who had an interest in native fauna and flora conservation on Kangaroo Island and whose father, William Gosse, is remembered in the naming of the Hundred of Gosse. The locality's boundaries which include the former government town of Gosse were created in May 2002. [8] [2] [9] [10]

The major land uses within the locality includes conservation and primary production with the former land use consisting of land within the boundaries of the Flinders Chase National Park. [11] [2]

The Playford Highway passes through Gosse. [2]

Gosse is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council. [6] [5] [2]

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References

Notes
  1. For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Vivonne Bay’ consisted of the localities of Cape Borda, De Mole River, Duncan, Flinders Chase, Gosse, Karatta, Middle River, Newland, Stun’sail Boom, Vivonne Bay and Western River.
Citations
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Vivonne Bay". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 March 2016. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Search result for "Gosse (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0027114) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Local Government Areas" and "Hundreds"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Gosse, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. 1 2 Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics CAPE BORDA". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  8. "Proposed K.I. Settlement". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 96, no. 29, 720. South Australia. 14 January 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  9. "Search result for "Gosse " (Record no SA0045867) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Government Towns"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  10. Gosse, Fayette. "Gosse, Sir James Hay (1876–1952)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  11. "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 267–273. Retrieved 8 March 2016.