Mount Willoughby, South Australia

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Mount Willoughby
South Australia
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Mount Willoughby
Coordinates 28°25′25″S134°10′06″E / 28.42370803°S 134.16827598°E / -28.42370803; 134.16827598 [1]
Population24 (shared with other localities) (2016 census) [2] [lower-alpha 1]
Established26 April 2013 [1]
Postcode(s) 5723 [1]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s) Pastoral Unincorporated Area [1] [3]
Region Far North [4]
County 'out of counties' [1]
State electorate(s) Giles [5]
Federal division(s) Grey [6]
Mean max temp [7] Mean min temp [7] Annual rainfall [7]
27.8 °C
82 °F		13.7 °C
57 °F		156.1 mm
6.1 in
Suburbs around Mount Willoughby:
Wintanna Wintanna
Evelyn Downs 		Evelyn Downs
Maralinga Tjarutja Mount Willoughby Evelyn Downs
Mount Barry
Maralinga Tjarutja Mabel Creek
Mount Clarence Station
Coober Pedy 		Coober Pedy
FootnotesLocation [1]
Adjoining localities [1]

Mount Willoughby is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 837 kilometres (520 miles) north-west of the capital city of Adelaide and about 84 kilometres (52 miles) north-west of the town of Coober Pedy. [1]

The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to "the long established local name" which is derived from the pastoral lease. [1] [8]

Mount Willoughby is located on land on the boundary between the Stony Plains and the Great Victoria Desert bioregions which "supports a remarkable collection of habitats, ranging from swamps and grassland to cracking clay pans, spectacular breakaway ranges and vivid red dune country". [9] The Adelaide-Darwin railway and the Stuart Highway both pass through the locality from south to north while the Woomera Prohibited Area occupies part of the locality's south-west corner. [1] [10] [11]

The principal land uses within the locality are primary production and conservation with the former being associated with the grazing of cattle in the northern end of the locality and the latter being associated with the Mount Willoughby Indigenous Protected Area in the remainder of the locality. [1] [3]

Mount Willoughby is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state's Far North region. [1] [4] [5] [6]

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References

Notes
  1. ↑ For the 2016 census, the ‘State Suburb of Mount Willoughby’ consisted of the localities of Arckaringa, Evelyn Downs, Mount Barry, Nilpinna Station and Mount Willoughby, and part of Allandale Station. [2] [1]
Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Search results for 'Mount Willoughby, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Gazetteer', 'Railways' and 'Roads'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Willoughby". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 May 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 "Development Plan, Land Not Within a Council Area Eyre, Far North, Riverland and Whyalla – 18 October 2012". Government of South Australia. 2012. pp. 11–12 and 221–230. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Far North SA government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 "District of Giles Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Coober Pedy (nearest weather station)" . Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  8. ↑ Proposed Locality Boundaries for Pastoral Areas (PDF) (Map). Government of South Australia. 31 October 2012. Rack Plan 951. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "(Fact Sheet) Mount Willoughby, Stony Plains, South Australia" (PDF). Australian Government, Department of Environment and Water Resources. February 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  10. ↑ Outback Road Names Sheet 1 of 5 (PDF) (Map). Government of South Australia. January 2014. Rack Plan 768. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "Search result for "Mount Willoughby (LOCB)" with the following layers selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Gazetteer', 'Railways', 'Roads', 'Woomera Access Zones' and 'Woomera Prohibited Area'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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