Mount Schank, South Australia
| Mount Schank South Australia | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 View of Mount Schank from the road to Port MacDonnell. | |||||||||||||||
  Mount Schank | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°56′24″S 140°43′26″E / 37.94°S 140.724°ECoordinates: 37°56′24″S 140°43′26″E / 37.94°S 140.724°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1996[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5291 [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
| ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Grant[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mount Gambier [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker[4] | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Footnotes |
Coordinates[1] Locations[2][1] Climate[5] Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Mount Schank is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 385 kilometres (239 miles) south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) south of the centre of Mount Gambier in the south-east of the state.[1][2]
Mount Schank originally began as a private sub-division of land within the cadastral unit of the Hundred of MacDonnell. Boundaries were created in October 1996 for the “long established name.”[1]
Mount Schank consists of land adjoining both sides of the Riddoch Highway between Mount Gambier to the north and Port MacDonnell to the south. The locality includes a number of geological features consisting of the extinct volcano, Mount Schank which is located on the eastern side of the Riddoch Highway and a number of water-filled sinkholes such as the Little Blue Lake located on land to the west of the Riddoch Highway.[1] The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with an area located between the Riddoch highway and the western side of the extinct volcano is zoned for industrial purposes.[6][1]
The following places within Mount Schank are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register - Mount Salt Limestone Track[7] and Mount Schank state heritage area[8]
Mount Schank is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mount Gambier and the local government area of the District Council of Grant.[4][3][1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Search result for "Mount Schank (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0015111) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)" "Local Government Areas" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Postcode for Mount Schank, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- 1 2 "District of Mount Gambier Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ↑ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Mount Gambier Aero (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ↑ "Development Plan, Grant Council, Consolidated – 11 February 2016" (PDF). [Government of South Australia. pp. 124, 127, 138, 199, 268–272 and 366. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ "Mount Salt Limestone Track". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ↑ "Mount Schank state heritage area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 August 2016.