Hammond, South Australia

Hammond
Hammond; South Australia
	Hammond
Coordinates	32°31′17″S138°18′53″E / 32.5213°S 138.3147°E Coordinates: 32°31′17″S138°18′53″E / 32.5213°S 138.3147°E [1]
Population	17 (2016 census) [2]
Postcode(s)	5431
Elevation	316 m (1,037 ft) [3]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	40 km (25 mi) southeast of Quorn
LGA(s)	Mount Remarkable [1] ; Orroroo Carrieton [1] ;
State electorate(s)	Stuart
Federal Division(s)	Grey
	Localities around Hammond:
Footnotes	Adjoining localities [1]

Last updated July 08, 2019

Hammond is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Flinders Ranges.^[1]

South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of 28,684.

The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about 200 km (125 mi) north of Adelaide. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over 430 km (265 mi) from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna.

The town of Hammond was surveyed in May 1879 on the banks of the Bellaratta Creek. It is named after William Henry Hammond Jervois, the eldest son of Governor of South Australia William Jervois.^[4]

The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level. In accordance with the conventions of the Westminster system of parliamentary government, the Governor nearly always acts solely on the advice of the head of the elected government, the Premier of South Australia. Nevertheless, the Governor retains the reserve powers of the Crown, and has the right to dismiss the Premier. As from June 2014, the Queen, upon the recommendation of the Premier, accorded all current, future and living former Governors the title 'The Honourable' for life. The first six Governors oversaw the colony from proclamation in 1836 until self-government and an elected Parliament of South Australia was enacted in the year prior to the inaugural 1857 election.

Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois was a British military engineer and diplomat. After joining the British Army in 1839, he saw service, as a second captain, in South Africa. In 1858, as a major, he was appointed Secretary of a Royal Commission set up to examine the state and efficiency of British land-based fortifications against naval attack; and this led to further work in Canada and South Australia. From 1875 to 1888 he was, consecutively, Governor of the Straits Settlements, Governor of South Australia and Governor-General of New Zealand.

St Dominic's Catholic Church in Hammond opened in 1907 but closed on 25 June 2006. Hammond school opened in 1886^[5] but is also now closed.

Railway

From 1881, Hammond was on the Peterborough–Quorn railway line. Peterborough provided rail connection south to Adelaide, west to Port Pirie and east to Broken Hill. Quorn was on the Central Australia Railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs, Northern Territory. After 1917, the Port Augusta end connected to the Trans-Australian Railway to Perth, Western Australia as well. Interstate rail traffic stopped using this line from 1937 when a new railway was built connecting Port Pirie direct to Port Augusta, providing a more direct path. It continued to carry some freight up until the 1980s, and remained available for occasional transfers between the Pichi Richi Railway and Steamtown Peterborough into the 1990s.

The Peterborough–Quorn railway line was a 3 ft 6 in railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Located in the upper Mid North of South Australia, it opened from Peterborough to Orroroo on 23 November 1881, being extended to Quorn on 22 May 1882.

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. Adelaide is home to 77 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia.

The former Central Australia Railway was a 1241 km 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Adelaide and Alice Springs. A standard gauge line replaced the southern section from Port Augusta to Maree in 1957, but used a new nearby alignment. The entire line was superseded in 1980 by the wholly standard gauge Adelaide-Darwin railway, using a new route up to 200 km to the west. A small southern section of the original line between Port Augusta and Quorn has been preserved as the Pichi Richi Tourist Railway. A short section just south of Alice Springs has also been preserved.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 "Search results for 'Hammond, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Land Development Plan Zone Categories' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "State Suburb of Hammond". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
↑ "Placename Details: Hammond Railway Station". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 10 March 2009. SA0029164. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
↑ "Placename Details: Hammond". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 4 March 2010. SA0029161. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
↑ "Placename Details: Hammond Rural School". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 10 March 2009. SA0034296. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

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[LMV-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Search results for 'Hammond, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Land Development Plan Zone Categories' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[Census2016-2] Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "State Suburb of Hammond". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

[3] "Placename Details: Hammond Railway Station". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 10 March 2009. SA0029164. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[4] "Placename Details: Hammond". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 4 March 2010. SA0029161. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[5] "Placename Details: Hammond Rural School". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 10 March 2009. SA0034296. Retrieved 12 January 2016.