Kingston District Council

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Kingston District Council
South Australia
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Position of the Kingston District Council
Population2,349 (2016 census) [1]
 • Density0.70378/km2 (1.8228/sq mi)
Established1873
Area3,337.7 km2 (1,288.7 sq mi)
MayorKay Rasheed
Council seat Kingston SE
Region Limestone Coast [2]
State electorate(s) MacKillop
Federal division(s) Barker
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Website Kingston District Council
LGAs around Kingston District Council:
The Coorong District Council Tatiara District Council
Kingston District Council
District Council of Robe Naracoorte Lucindale Council

The Kingston District Council (formerly District Council of Lacepede) is a local government area in the Limestone Coast, South Australia established in 1873. Kingston SE is the largest town of the district and also the seat of council.

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The district is mostly reliant on agriculture, particularly cereal crops, sheep and cattle. Cape Jaffa also hosts a lobster fishing fleet, with other commercial fishing also providing part of the area's economy.

Tourism also plays a minor role, with Kingston SE a minor tourist destination, noted for its 'Big Lobster', with Mount Scott Conservation Park and Butchers Gap Conservation Park also located in the district.

History

The area was originally settled by the Ngarrindjeri Aborigines, who lived along the Coorong and extended across the Murray River to the present day site of Goolwa.

The first European to make contact with this stretch of coastline was the French explorer Nicolas Baudin who discovered Lacepede Bay in 1802. [3] In 1840, the Brigantine Maria was shipwrecked near Cape Jaffa after leaving Port Adelaide. [4] All 25 people aboard were massacred by Aborigines along the Coorong. [4]

The town of Kingston was established in 1856, the town being named after the government surveyor, George Strickland Kingston by Governor McDonnell, in 1858 and renamed as Kingston SE in July 1940. [5] [6]

The District Council of Lacepede was established on 4 July 1873 to serve the growing area. [7] [8] The name was changed to the present designation on 1 July 2000. [9] Mayor Legoe justified the change at the ceremony, stating; "The decision to change the name of the Council was not a decision to change for the sake of change. It is a decision to change the image and identity of the Council to propel itself into the 21st Century". [10]

Localities

The district council includes the following localities - Avenue Range (part), Blackford, Cape Jaffa, Coorong, Keilira, Kingston SE, Marcollat, Pinks Beach, Reedy Creek, Rosetown, Sandy Grove, Taratap, Tilley Swamp, Wangolina, West Range and Wyomi. [11]

Councillors

WardCouncillorNotes
Mayor [12]  Kay Rasheed
Unsubdivided [12]  Christopher England
 Jodie Gluyas
 Jeff Pope
 William Armfield
 Tim Harding
 Michael Ringshaw
 Rick Wingard

Kingston District Council has a directly elected mayor.

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Kingston SE formerly Kingston is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east coastline on the shores of Lacepede Bay. It is located about 240 kilometres southeast of the state capital of Adelaide and 138 kilometres north-west of the centre of the city of Mount Gambier. At the 2016 census, Kingston SE had a population of 1,648.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cape Jaffa</span> Place in South Australia

Cape Jaffa is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south end of Lacepede Bay on the state's south east coast about 20 kilometres south west of the town centre of Kingston SE. The cape is described as being "a low sandy point" with "its sea face is about One nautical mile (1.9 km) long" and having a "wooded range rises near the S[outh] part of the cape and reaches a height of 77 metres at Mount Benson, about 8.5 nautical miles S[outh] E[ast]". A settlement known as King's Camp in some sources and as Cape Jaffa in other sources is located about 0.5 nautical miles to the north west of the cape. This settlement includes a jetty fitted with a navigation aid and a marina. The southern coastline of the cape forms part of the Bernouilli Conservation Reserve.

Maria was a brigantine built in Dublin, Ireland, and launched in 1823 as a passenger ship. On 28 June 1840, she wrecked on the Margaret Brock Reef, near Cape Jaffa in the Colony of South Australia, somewhere south-west of the current site of the town of Kingston SE, South Australia. The wreck has never been located.

Lacepede Bay is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast about 140 kilometres northwest of Mount Gambier and about 240 kilometres southeast of Adelaide. It was named in 1802 by the Baudin expedition of 1800-03 after Bernard Germain de Lacépède, the French naturalist. It is one of four ‘historic bays’ located on the South Australian coast.

Bernouilli Conservation Reserve is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the gazetted locality of Cape Jaffa about 21 kilometres south west of the township of Kingston SE in the state's Limestone Coast region. The conservation reserve was proclaimed under the Crown Lands Act 1929 on 11 November 1993. The name is derived from Cap Bernouilli, the former name of the headland of Cape Jaffa. The conservation reserve is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cape Jaffa, South Australia</span> Town in South Australia

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Wangolina is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is about 252 kilometres south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 144 kilometres south of the centre of Mount Gambier.

West Range is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast overlooking Lacepede Bay which is part of the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is about 232 kilometres south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 145 kilometres south of the centre of Mount Gambier.

Marcollat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s Limestone Coast region about 236 kilometres (147 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of the municipal seat in Kingston SE.

Blackford is a locality within the Kingston District Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.

Reedy Creek is a locality located within the Kingston District Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The Kingston-Naracoorte railway line opened through the area on 1 September 1876. The Reedy Creek township grew around the railway siding. The railway closed in 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hundred of Lacepede</span>

The Hundred of Lacepede is a cadastral hundred of the County of MacDonnell on the Limestone Coast, South Australia.

Tilley Swamp is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about 199 kilometres (124 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of the municipal seat of Kingston SE. The 2016 Australian census, which was conducted in August 2016, reports that the area had a population of 27 people.

Taratap is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about 223 kilometres (139 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north-east of the municipal seat of Kingston SE.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Brock Reef</span>

Margaret Brock Reef is a reef in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's coastal waters on its south-east coast about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the headland of Cape Jaffa and about 27.2 kilometres (16.9 mi) south-west of the town of Kingston SE. It is the site of both a navigation aid which operated as a staffed lighthouse from 1872 to 1973 and as an automatic beacon onward to the present day, and a rock lobster sanctuary declared under state law in 1973. It is named after the barque Margaret Brock which was wrecked there in 1852.

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Kingston (SA) (DC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 April 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Limestone Coast SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald Travel (8 February 2004), "Kingston SE", The Sydney Morning Herald, retrieved 26 May 2007
  4. 1 2 "A Famous Wreck". The Evening News . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 5 October 1895. p. 1 Supplement: Evening News Supplement. Retrieved 29 May 2013. This reference quite credibly states the bodies were stuffed down wombat holes, where others coyly refer to "shallow graves". It is also one of the few to touch on the contentious possibility of cannibalism.
  5. ↑ "Search result for "Kingston SE (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SASA0036846) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED". The Chronicle . Vol. LXXXIII, no. 4, 728. South Australia. 1 August 1940. p. 13. Retrieved 31 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "GOVERNMENT GAZETTE". The South Australian Advertiser . South Australia. 4 July 1873. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Bell, Peter; Marsden, Susan. "Kingston SE: An Overview History". SA Historians. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "District Council of Lacepede, Change of Council Name Notice" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 6 April 2000. p. 2063. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  10. ↑ Annual Report 2000/2001 (PDF), Kingston District Council, retrieved 25 May 2007
  11. ↑ "Search result for " Blackford (LOCB)" (Record no SA0037180) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Local Government Areas"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure , Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 "Elected Members". Kingston District Council. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

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