Sandilands, South Australia

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Sandilands
South Australia
Sandilands
Coordinates 34°30′46″S 137°46′54″E / 34.51267°S 137.781680°E / -34.51267; 137.781680Coordinates: 34°30′46″S 137°46′54″E / 34.51267°S 137.781680°E / -34.51267; 137.781680
Population 470 (shared with other localities within the “State Suburb of Price”) (2011 census)[1]
Established 1999[2]
Postcode(s) 5571[3]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s) Yorke Peninsula Council
State electorate(s) Goyder[4]
Federal Division(s) Grey[5]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
22.6 °C
73 °F		 10.7 °C
51 °F		 332.0 mm
13.1 in
Suburbs around Sandilands:
Yorke Valley Yorke Valley
Cunningham
Ardrossan		 James Well
Rogues Point
Urania
Wauraltee		 Sandilands Gulf St Vincent
Pine Point
Wauraltee Curramulka Pine Point
Footnotes Distances[3]
Coordinates[2]
Climate[6]
Adjoining localities[2]

Sandilands is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Gulf St Vincent about 88 kilometres (55 mi) north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of Ardrossan.[3][2][7]

Its boundaries which were created in May 1999 for the “long established name.”[2][8] The locality’s name is derived from Robert Hamilton Sandilands (1841-1923) who lived there during the 1880s.[9][10]

As of 2014, the majority land use within the locality is “primary production.”[7]

Sandilands is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Goyder and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.[5][4][2]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Price". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search result for "Sandilands (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0060457) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Sandilands, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Goyder electorate boundaries as of 2014". ELECTORAL COMMISSION SA. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics PRICE". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Development Plan - Yorke Peninsula Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 153, 231–232 & 323. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Kentish, P. M. (27 May 1999), "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places", The South Australian Government Gazette: 2696, retrieved 5 December 2015
  9. ↑ "OBITUARY.". Observer. LXXX, (5,983). South Australia. 29 September 1923. p. 39. Retrieved 27 February 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Sandilands, Nomenclature". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
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