Yongala, South Australia

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This article is about the town Yongala in South Australia. For the shipwreck see SS Yongala

Yongala
South Australia

Scene from the hill overlooking Yongala

Population:

Postcode:

5493

Elevation:

512 m (1,680 ft)

Location:

238 km (148 mi) North of Adelaide via
91 km (57 mi) East of Port Pirie
11 km (7 mi) southwest of Peterborough

LGA:

District Council of Peterborough

County:

Dalhousie

State District:

Stuart

Federal Division:

Grey

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
21.8 °C ^{71 °F}	7.2 °C ^{45 °F}	363.4 mm ^{14.3 in}

Yongala is a small town located in the state of South Australia, Australia. It has a population of approximately 80 people and is situated on the Clare Peterborough Road (B79). The town was proclaimed on 23 May 1876 and within 5 years would have a population of 353 as developers anticipated the connection of a railway. The railway instead went through the nearby town of Peterborough.^[1]

Yongala is situated on a high plateau and winter snowfalls are common. The town holds several records for the lowest minimum temperature in South Australia.^[1]

[edit] History of settlement

Yongala was established as a hundred and part of the Dalhousie county in 1871 as one of the first of the 12 hundreds to be declared in that county. Land could be purchased in a hundred as soon as it had been declared.^[2]

[edit] Trivia

The steamship SS Yongala launched in 1903 and owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company was named after the town. It sank in a storm in 1911 and the wreck is now protected off the coast of Townsville, Queensland.

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[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Yongala. Peterborough Tourist Promotion Association (2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ Counties and Hundreds - South Australia. Adelaide Co-operative History (2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.