Yorkey Crossing

Yorkey Crossing South Australia
Yorkey Crossing
Coordinates	32°24′11″S 137°45′10″E / 32.40306°S 137.75278°E / -32.40306; 137.75278Coordinates: 32°24′11″S 137°45′10″E / 32.40306°S 137.75278°E / -32.40306; 137.75278
Location	7.4 km (5 mi) north of Port Augusta^[1]
LGA(s)	‘Out of Councils’^[2]

Yorkey Crossing is a ford in the Australian state of South Australia located at the head of Spencer Gulf in the gazetted locality of Emeroo about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) north of Port Augusta. As of 2014, it is the site of an unsealed road that serves as a by-pass route around the head of the gulf for 'over dimensional vehicles' (i.e. greater than 4 metres (13 ft)Error in convert: Ignored invalid option "abbr=1" (help) wide and 5.8 metres (19 ft)Error in convert: Ignored invalid option "abbr=1" (help) high), which are not permitted to cross the gulf using the Port Augusta Bridge. It is also near the location of the crossing (also known as Yorkey Crossing) for the Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway (now called the Trans-Australian Railway) built after 1911. It is considered to be the most north easterly part of Eyre Peninsula.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

1 2 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2010). Pub175, Sailing directions (enroute) north, west, and south coast of Australia (PDF) (10th ed.). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). p. 192. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
1 2 Port Augusta Road Management Plan (Draft); Port Augusta – Port Wakefield Road, Stuart Highway, Eyre Highway, Yorkey Crossing Road (PDF). Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. March 2012. pp. 3 & 5. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "Yorkey Crossing". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ Say, Steph (May 7, 2014). "Yorkeys Crossing issue continues". The Transcontinental, Port Augusta. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway Act 1911". Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
↑ "Property Location Browser Report for Placename Details: Eyre Peninsula, PEN". The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Cities

Townships

Governance

Federal division	Grey
State electoral districts	Flinders Giles Stuart
Local Government	Ceduna DC Cleve DC Elliston DC Franklin Harbour DC Kimba DC Lower Eyre Peninsula DC City of Port Augusta City of Port Lincoln Streaky Bay DC Tumby Bay DC City of Whyalla Wudinna DC

Protected areas

Coastal features

West coast	Anxious Bay Calca Peninsula Cape Blanche Cape Carnot Cape Catastrophe Cape Finniss Cape Radstock Cape Wiles Coffin Bay Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Point Avoid Point Labatt Point Weyland Point Whidbey Slade Point
East coast	Cape Burr Cape Donington Cape Hardy Lipson Cove Memory Cove Point Lowly Yorkey Crossing

Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast

West coast	Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Jones Island Unnamed island, Baird Bay Cap Island Eba Island Germein Island Grantham Island Greenly Island Investigator Group Flinders Island Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands Liguanea Island Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Island Nuyts Archipelago Smooth Island Olive Island Pigface Island Whidbey Isles Williams Island
East coast	Bicker Isles Boston Island Curlew Island Entrance Island Hopkins Island Lewis Island Lipson Island Little Island Louth Island Owen Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Islands Smith Island Taylor Island Thistle Island Tumby Island

Related and uncategorised

The Peninsulas zone (wine)

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