Duncan, South Australia
Duncan is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about 162 kilometres (101 miles) south-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 49 kilometres (30 miles) west of the municipal seat of Kingscote.[1][3]
| Duncan South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Duncan | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°46′31″S 137°07′09″E / 35.775320°S 137.119240°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 407 (shared with other localities within the “State Suburb of Vivonne Bay”) (2011 census)[2][a] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 2002[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5223 [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][1] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Its boundaries were created in May 2002 for the “long established name” which was derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Duncan. The Playford Highway forms the southern boundary of the locality.[1]
The principal land use in the locality is primary production with land on the western side of the locality located in a ‘water protection zone’ in order to manage the aquifer system existing within Duncan and adjoining localities.[8][1]
Duncan 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][1]
References edit
- Notes
- ^ For the 2011 census, the ‘State Suburb of Vivonne Bay’ consisted of the localities of Cape Borda, De Mole River, Duncan, Flinders Chase, Gosse, Karatta, Middle River, Newland, Stun'Sail Boom, Vivonne Bay and Western River.
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j . Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Vivonne Bay". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ a b c "Duncan, South Australia (postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "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 KINGSCOTE AERO (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council, Consolidated – 20 February 2014" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 152–153, 197–198 and 259–266. Retrieved 8 March 2016.