| Bookabie South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Bookabie | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°50′36″S132°40′31″E / 31.843288°S 132.675268°E /-31.843288; 132.675268[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 289 (shared withPenong) (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) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| 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 ofSouth Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking theGreat Australian Bight about 648 kilometres (403 miles) north-west of the state capital ofAdelaide and about 103 kilometres (64 miles) west of the town centre ofCeduna.[1][5]
The name was first used for a town located in theHundred of Magarey which was surveyed in July 1890 and officially named byGovernor Kintore on 27 August 1891.[1][3] The name was recorded by the journalist,Daisy Bates, as being derived from anAboriginal word meaning “bad water” which was used by local Aboriginal people 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 ofFowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland.[1] TheEyre Highway passes through the locality in an east-west direction.[1] As of 2012, the majority land use within the locality wasagriculture while the land adjoining the coastline in the south being zoned forconservation.[11]
The2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that the localities of Bookabie andPenong shared a population of 289 people.[2][1]
Bookabie is located within the federalDivision of Grey, the stateelectoral district of Flinders and thePastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.[1][8][7]
...assign the names YUNTA, BLINMAN, BOOKABIE, GLENDAMBO, YALATA, KINGOONYA, OLARY, INNAMINCKA, and MANNA HILL to those areas...