Mount Schank, South Australia
| Mount Schank South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 View of Mount Schank from the road to Port MacDonnell. | |||||||||||||||
| Population | 264 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1996[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5291 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Grant[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mount Gambier [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker[5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates[1] Locations[3][1] Climate[6] Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Mount Schank is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 385 kilometres (239 mi)* south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 14 kilometres (8.7 mi)* south of the centre of Mount Gambier in the south-east of the state.[1][3]
Mount Schank originally began as a private sub-division of land within the cadastral unit of the Hundred of MacDonnell. Boundaries were created in October 1996 for the “long established name.”[1]
Mount Schank consists of land adjoining both sides of the Riddoch Highway between Mount Gambier to the north and Port MacDonnell to the south. The locality includes a number of geological features consisting of the extinct volcano, Mount Schank which is located on the eastern side of the Riddoch Highway and a number of water-filled sinkholes such as the Little Blue Lake located on land to the west of the Riddoch Highway.[1] The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with an area located between the Riddoch highway and the western side of the extinct volcano is zoned for industrial purposes.[7][1]
The following places within Mount Schank are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register:
Mount Schank is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mount Gambier and the local government area of the District Council of Grant.[5][4][1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Search result for "Mount Schank (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0015111) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)" "Local Government Areas" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Schank (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Postcode for Mount Schank, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ a b "District of Mount Gambier Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Mount Gambier Aero (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "Development Plan, Grant Council, Consolidated – 11 February 2016" (PDF). [Government of South Australia. pp. 124, 127, 138, 199, 268-272 and 366. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Mount Salt Limestone Track". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ "Mount Schank state heritage area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
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