Poltalloch South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Lighthouse on Point Malcolm at the south-west end of Poltalloch | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°31′38″S 139°19′10″E / 35.527320°S 139.319360°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 41 ( SAL 2021) [2] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 2002 [1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5259 [3] | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST ( UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer ( DST) | ACST ( UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location | 87 km (54 mi) south-east of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Coorong District Council [1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Hammond [4] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Barker [5] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Distances
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[1] Coordinates [1] Climate [6] Adjoining localities [1] |
Poltalloch is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on land between the water bodies of Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert about 87 kilometres (54 miles) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide. [3] [1]
Poltalloch began as a private sub-division in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Malcolm. Its boundaries were created in August 2000 in respect to “the long established name.” [1]
Poltalloch is bounded by Lake Alexandrina to the north, by Lake Albert to the south-west and by the Princes Highway to the south-east. [1] A road named the Poltalloch Road runs between the Princes Highway in the north along the coastline with Lake Alexandrina to Point Malcolm in the south-west where a ferry service operates to provide access to Narrung. [1] [7] The principal land use within the locality is agriculture with a strip of land on the coastlines with both lakes being zoned for conservation purposes. [8]
The locality includes the following places listed on the South Australian Heritage Register - Point Malcolm Lighthouse, Poltalloch Homestead and Poltalloch Station Complex. [9] [10] [11]
Poltalloch is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Hammond and the local government area of the Coorong District Council. [5] [4] [1]