Porky Flat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is located about 116 kilometres (72 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 18 kilometres (11 miles) south-west of Penneshaw.[1][3][8][9]
| Porky Flat South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Porky Flat | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°50′41″S 138°01′51″E / 35.844680°S 138.030850°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 319 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Island Beach”) (2011 census)[2][a] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 2002[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5222[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Kangaroo Island Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island][4] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Carnarvon[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mawson [5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mayo[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates[1] Locations[3] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Its boundaries were created in March 2002 while its name was derived from Porky Flat, a flat which is now within the boundaries of the locality.[1]
The main land uses within the locality are agriculture and conservation. The latter land use includes two protected areas, the Simpson Conservation Park on the locality's western side and the western part of the Lesueur Conservation Park on the eastern side, an area of privately owned land having protected status due to being subject to native vegetation heritage agreements and other land adjoining the coastline which has additional statutory constraints to “conserve the natural features of the coast.”[10][1][11]
Porky Flat is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council.[1][5][6]
References edit
- Notes
- ^ For the 2011 census, the State Suburb of Island Beach covered the full extent of the Dudley Peninsula with the exception of Penneshaw - refer Dudley Peninsula#Demographics for more information
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Search result for "Porky Flat (Locality Bounded)" (Record no Locality Bounded) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Island Beach". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ a b c "Postcode for Porky Flat, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ^ "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ a b Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Cape Willoughby (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "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 29 December 2020.
- ^ "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 114–117, 135, 152–153, 179, 305 and 307–310. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ "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.
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