Bruce, South Australia
| Bruce South Australia | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  Bruce | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°27′44″S 138°11′48″E / 32.4621°S 138.1967°ECoordinates: 32°27′44″S 138°11′48″E / 32.4621°S 138.1967°E | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1850 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5433 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 239 m (784 ft)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Location | 23 km (14 mi) southeast of Quorn | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Mount Remarkable | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Bruce is a settlement in South Australia.[2]
An historic railway town in the centre of the Willochra Plain, 334 km north of Adelaide, it was first settled in 1850 and declared a town in 1876. Once a pass-through point on the train voyage from Sydney to Perth, replete with parklands and boasting cricket and tennis teams, it suffered terribly from the 1864-66 drought, then irreparably from the following drought years of the 1880s and 1890s.
Bruce currently has a population of four.[3]
References
- ↑ "Placename Details: Bruce Railway Station". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 2 December 2013. SA0010105. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/news/south-australia/bruce/2005/02/17/1108500204184.html
| ||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, January 13, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.