Sandalwood, South Australia

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Sandalwood
South Australia
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Sandalwood
Coordinates 34°56′36″S140°07′37″E / 34.94325°S 140.126955°E / -34.94325; 140.126955 Coordinates: 34°56′36″S140°07′37″E / 34.94325°S 140.126955°E / -34.94325; 140.126955 [1]
Population 60 (2016 census) [2]
Established 9 April 1914 (town)
11 November 1999 (locality) [3] [1] [4]
Postcode(s) 5309 [5]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACDT (UTC+10:30)
Location 139 km (86 mi) E of Adelaide
LGA(s) District Council of Karoonda East Murray [1]
Region Murray and Mallee [1]
County Buccleuch [1]
Chandos [1]
State electorate(s) Hammond [6]
Federal Division(s) Barker [7]
Mean max temp [8] Mean min temp [8] Annual rainfall [8]
23.6 °C
74 °F
9.3 °C
49 °F
343.0 mm
13.5 in
Localities around Sandalwood:
Borrika Halidon
Wanbi
Schell Well
Schell Well
Borrika Sandalwood Billiatt
Lameroo
Marama Marama Lameroo
Footnotes Adjoining localities [1]

Sandalwood is a small settlement in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. [9]

The Murray Mallee is the grain-growing and sheep-farming area of South Australia bounded to the north and west by the Murray River, to the east by the Victorian border, and extending about 50 km south of the Mallee Highway.

South Australia State of Australia

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 less than 30,000.

Sandalwood lies between Karoonda and Alawoona on the Karoonda Highway and Loxton railway line. It was founded as a siding on the new railway line, which opened in 1913. The post office opened in 1914, and the school in 1919. [10] These have now all closed.

Karoonda, South Australia Town in South Australia

Karoonda is in the middle of the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. Karoonda takes its name from the Aboriginal word for "winter camp". The current boundaries include the former town of Lowaldie, which was the next stop on the railway line away from Adelaide.

The Karoonda Highway is a 172-kilometre-long (107 mi) state-controlled highway in South Australia linking the Murray River towns of Murray Bridge and Loxton. It was created after local councils called for the renaming of the B55 road route.

Loxton railway line

The Loxton railway line is a closed railway line in the northern Murray Mallee region of South Australia. It ran north-east from Tailem Bend to grain silos near Loxton.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sandalwood had a population of 60 people. [2]

The 2016 Australian census was the seventeenth national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 23,401,892 – an increase of 8.8 per cent or 1,894,175 people since the 2011 census. Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population.

Sandalwood is located in the local government area of District Council of Karoonda East Murray, the state electoral district of Hammond and the federal Division of Barker. [7] [6] [1]

District Council of Karoonda East Murray Local government area in South Australia

The District Council of Karoonda East Murray is a local government area in the Murray Mallee area of South Australia. The main council offices are in Karoonda.

Electoral district of Hammond state electoral district of South Australia

Hammond is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Ruby Hammond, the first indigenous woman to stand for the Federal Parliament. Hammond is a rural electorate east and south-east of Adelaide, covering 18,091 km2 (6,985 sq mi) in the east and upper south-east of the state, and takes in the towns of Callington, Cambrai, Coomandook, Karoonda, Langhorne Creek, Mannum, Nildottie, Peake, Pinnaroo, Purnong and Tailem Bend.

Division of Barker Australian federal electoral division

The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda.

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