Mount Benson, South Australia

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the associated hill, see Mount Benson (South Australia). For the wine region, see Mount Benson wine region.

Mount Benson South Australia
Mount Benson Location in South Australia
Coordinates	37°2′38″S139°47′57″E / 37.04389°S 139.79917°E / -37.04389; 139.79917 [1]
Population	111 (2016 census) [2]
Established	28 January 1999 [3]
Postcode(s)	5275 [4]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	269 km (167 mi) from Adelaide [4] 112 km (70 mi) from Mount Gambier [4]
LGA(s)	District Council of Robe [1]
State electorate(s)	MacKillop [5]
Federal division(s)	Barker [6]
Mean max temp [7] Mean min temp [7] Annual rainfall [7] 19.3 °C 67 °F 10.3 °C 51 °F 489.4 mm 19.3 in
Localities around Mount Benson: Ocean Wangolina Reedy Creek Reedy Creek Ocean Boatswain Point Guichen Bay Mount Benson Reedy Creek Robe Robe Bray Bray
Footnotes	Adjoining localities [1]

Mount Benson is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast overlooking Guichen 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 269 kilometres (167 miles) south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 112 kilometres (70 miles) north-west of the centre of Mount Gambier. ^{[1] [4] [8] [9]}

Boundaries were created on 28 January 1999 for the "long established name" whose ultimate source is a stockman named Benson who was employed by the pastoralist, Charles Bonney, and whose name was given to the hill called Mount Benson by Charles Bonney according to one source while another source indicates that the hill was named by George Grey, the then Governor of South Australia. ^{[1] [10] [11] [3]} A school operated within what is now the locality between the years 1887 and 1970. ^[11]

The locality contains the hill of the same name and is within the extent of the wine region of the same name. The Southern Ports Highway passes through the locality. ^{[10] [1] [12]}

The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with the land adjoining the coastline being zoned for conservation. The latter includes the protected area known as the Guichen Bay Conservation Park. ^{[1] [13]}

Mount Benson is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the District Council of Robe. ^{[6] [5] [1]}

See also

• Mount Benson (disambiguation)
• Mount Benson wine region

References

1. "Search result for " Mount Benson (LOCB)" (Record no SA0035745) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)" "Road Labels " and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Benson (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
3. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places (in the District Council of Robe)" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 610, 28 January 1999, retrieved 14 April 2018
4. "Mount Benson, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
5. "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
6. "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Cape Jaffa (The Limestone) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
8. "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF) (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. pp. 35–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
9. "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
10. "Search result for " Mount Benson (Mountain)" (Record no SA0005934) with the following layers selected - "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
11. "Benson, Mount". Place Names of South Australia. The State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
12. Longbottom, Mardi; Maschmedt, David; Pichler, Markus (2011), Unearthing viticulture in the Limestone Coast (PDF), p. 12, ISBN   978-0-646-56744-0, archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2014
13. "Development Plan, Robe Council, Consolidated – 28 August 2014" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 105, 137 and 190–200. Retrieved 17 July 2016.