Dudley West, South Australia

Dudley West is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of 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 107 kilometres (66 miles) south of the Adelaide city centre and about 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) south-west of Penneshaw.^[1][3][8][9]

Dudley West South Australia
Dudley West
Coordinates	35°48′42″S 137°52′16″E / 35.811610°S 137.871230°E / -35.811610; 137.871230
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)
Location	118 km (73 mi) south of Adelaide city centre 11 km (7 mi) south of Penneshaw
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]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 18.1 °C 65 °F 12.8 °C 55 °F 538.4 mm 21.2 in
Suburbs around Dudley West: Island Beach Kangaroo Head American Beach Brown Beach Dudley East Pelican Lagoon Dudley West Willson River Ocean Ocean Ocean
Footnotes	Coordinates^[1] Locations^[3] Climate^[7] Adjoining localities^[1]

Its boundaries were created in March 2002 for the “long established name.” The locality is reported as being so named because it is located in the western part of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Dudley.^[1]

The land use within the locality is divided between agriculture and conservation with the latter land use being concerned with both the protected area, the Dudley Conservation Park, and land being subject to native vegetation heritage agreements.^[10][11][1]

Dudley West 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

Notes

1. 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

1. "Search result for "Dudley West (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0058058) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Island Beach". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 April 2016.  
3. "Postcode for Dudley West, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 22 May 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. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics CAPE WILLOUGHBY (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
8. "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF) (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. pp. 35–36. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
9. "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
10. "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.
11. "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 302–306. Retrieved 8 March 2016.