Bookabie South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 31°50′36″S 132°40′31″E / 31.843288°S 132.675268°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 289 (shared with Penong) ( 2016 census) [2] [a] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 27 August 1891 (town) 23 October 2003 (locality) [3] [4] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5690 [5] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST ( UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer ( DST) | ACST ( UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Pastoral Unincorporated Area [1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Eyre Western [6] | ||||||||||||||
County | Kintore [1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Flinders [7] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey [8] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Location
[5] Adjoining localities [1] |
Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 648 kilometres (403 miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 103 kilometres (64 miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna. [1] [5]
The name was first used for a town located in the Hundred of Magarey which was surveyed in July 1890 and officially named by Governor Kintore on 27 August 1891. [1] [3] The name was recorded by the journalist, Daisy Bates, as being derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “bad water” which was used by local aboriginals for a waterhole near the town. Boundaries for the locality including the town were created on 23 October 2003 with some additional “unincorporated land” being added on 26 April 2013. [10] [1]
The locality of Bookabie consists of land associated with a section of coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the eastern side of Fowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland. [1] The Eyre Highway passes through the locality in an east-west direction. [1] As of 2012, the majority land use within the locality was agriculture while the land adjoining the coastline in the south being zoned for conservation. [11]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that the localities of Bookabie and Penong shared a population of 289 people. [2] [1]
Bookabie is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. [1] [8] [7]
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