Seal Bay, South Australia

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the associated protected area, see Seal Bay Conservation Park.

For other uses, see Seal Bay.

Seal Bay South Australia
View (looking west) from within the Seal Bay Conservation Park
Seal Bay
Coordinates	35°57′27″S137°19′18″E / 35.957480°S 137.321610°E / -35.957480; 137.321610 Coordinates: 35°57′27″S137°19′18″E / 35.957480°S 137.321610°E / -35.957480; 137.321610
Population	560 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Nepean Bay”) (2011 census) [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Established	2002 [2]
Postcode(s)	5223 [3]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	164 km (102 mi) south-west of Adelaide 50 km (31 mi) south of Kingscote
LGA(s)	Kangaroo Island Council [2]
Region	Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island [4]
County	County of Carnarvon [2]
State electorate(s)	Mawson [5]
Federal Division(s)	Mayo [6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 21.0 °C 70 °F 8.9 °C 48 °F 444.0 mm 17.5 in
Suburbs around Seal Bay: Seddon Seddon MacGillivray Vivonne Bay Seal Bay MacGillivray Ocean Ocean MacGillivray
Footnotes	Location [3] [7] Coordinates [2] Climate [8] Adjoining localities [2]

Seal Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Kangaroo Island overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. ^{[9] [10]} It is located about 164 kilometres (102 miles) southwest of the state capital of Adelaide and about 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the municipal seat of Kingscote. ^{[2] [3]}

Its boundaries were created in 2002 in respect to “the long established name.” ^[2]

The majority land use within the locality is conservation while a smaller amount of land within the centre of the locality is zoned for agriculture. The former use consists of the full extent of the Seal Bay Conservation Park and part of the western end of the Cape Gantheaume Wilderness Protection Area which occupies part of the eastern side of the locality. ^{[11] [2] [12]}

Seal Bay is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council. ^{[6] [5] [2]}

References

Notes

1. For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Nepean Bay’ consisted of the localities of Ballast Head, Birchmore, D’Estrees Bay, Haines, Kohinoor, MacGillivray, Muston, Nepean Bay, Seal Bay and Seddon.

Citations

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Nepean Bay". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
2. "Search result for "Seal Bay (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0058095) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties" and "Road Labels"". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
3. "Postcode for Seal Bay, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
4. "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
5. Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
6. "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
7. "Management Plan, Seal Bay and Cape Gantheaume Conservation Parks, Kangaroo Island, South Australia" (PDF). National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment (NPWS). 1977: 11. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
8. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KINGSCOTE AERO (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
9. "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF) (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. pp. 35–36. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
10. "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
11. "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council, Consolidated – 20 February 2014" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 135, 152 and 319–327. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
12. "Protected Areas of South Australia September (Map) 2015 Edition" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.