Willson River | |||||||||||||
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  Willson River | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates:35°50′48″S137°56′16″E / 35.846690°S 137.937850°E /-35.846690; 137.937850 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 2002[2] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 6 (SAL2021)[6] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5222[7] | ||||||||||||
| County | Carnarvon[2] | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 18.1 °C (64.6 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 12.8 °C (55.0 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 538.4 mm (21.20 in) | ||||||||||||
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| Coordinates[2] Locations[7] Climate[8] Adjoining localities[2] | |||||||||||||
Willson River is a locality in the Australian state ofSouth Australia located on theDudley Peninsula onKangaroo Island overlooking the body of water known inAustralia as theSouthern Ocean and by international authorities as theGreat Australian Bight. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the state capital ofAdelaide and about 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) south-west of the town centre ofPenneshaw.[2][7][9][10]
Its boundaries were created in March 2002 while its name was derived from the Willson River, ariver which flows through the locality and which itself was named in 1885 after the Willson family who have resided in what is now the locality prior to 1885 and as recently as 1996.[2][11]
The main land uses within the locality areagriculture andconservation. The former land use includes an area of privately owned land having protected status due to being subject tonative vegetation heritage agreements while the latter use includes land adjoining the coastline which has additional statutory constraints to “conserve the natural features of the coast.”[12][2][13]
Willson River is located within the federaldivision of Mayo, the stateelectoral district of Mawson and the local government area of theKangaroo Island Council.[2][3][4]
