Pine Point, South Australia

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Pine Point
South Australia
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Beachside shacks at Pine Point
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Pine Point
Coordinates 34°34′05″S137°52′56″E / 34.5681°S 137.8822°E / -34.5681; 137.8822
Population88 (SAL 2021) [1]
Established24 January 1874 (town)
May 1999 (locality) [2] [3]
Postcode(s) 5571
LGA(s) Yorke Peninsula Council
Region Yorke and Mid North [4]
County Fergusson [3]
State electorate(s) Narungga [5]
Federal division(s) Grey [6]
Localities around Pine Point:
Sandilands Sandilands Gulf St Vincent
Sandilands
Curramulka 		Pine Point Gulf St Vincent
Black Point
Curramulka Port Julia Port Julia
FootnotesAdjoining localities [3]

Pine Point (formerly Muloowurtie) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia south of Ardrossan on the east side of Yorke Peninsula adjacent to Gulf St Vincent. It was surveyed as a government town in 1883 and proclaimed under the name of Muloowurtie on 24 January 1884. [2] The name was changed to Pine Point in 1940. The boundaries of the locality were created in May 1999 in respect to the "long established name" and includes both "the Pine Point Shack Site" and " the Government Town of Pine Point." [3] [7]

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  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Pine Point (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Bray, J.C. (24 January 1884). "Unnamed proclamation re Town of Muloowurtie" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 293. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Search result for " Pine Point (LOCB)" (Record no SA0055369) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED". The Chronicle . Vol. LXXXIII, no. 4, 728. Adelaide. 1 August 1940. p. 13. Retrieved 31 August 2016– via National Library of Australia.

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