Coonawarra | |||||||||||||
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 Coonawarra railway station, looking south | |||||||||||||
  Coonawarra | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates:37°17′31″S140°49′59″E / 37.292066°S 140.833031°E /-37.292066; 140.833031[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Limestone Coast[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 13 December 2001 (locality)[2] | ||||||||||||
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| • Federal division | |||||||||||||
| Elevation | 57 m (187 ft) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 135 (SAL2021)[6] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5263[7] | ||||||||||||
| County | Robe[1] | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 20.5 °C (68.9 °F)[8] | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 8.1 °C (46.6 °F)[8] | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 568.7 mm (22.39 in)[8] | ||||||||||||
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| Locations[7] Adjoining localities[1] | |||||||||||||
Coonawarra is a small town north ofPenola inSouth Australia. It is best known for theCoonawarra wine region named after it.
TheAboriginal Australians living in the area whenEuropeans arrived were theBindjali people,[9][10] The wordcoonawarra is reported to have been their word for honeysuckle,[11] although this meaning has also been ascribed toPenola by the same source.[10] An alternative origin to the name is still rooted in the local indigenous language: “The name of John Riddock’s fruit colony, started by him in 1895. “Coon” being the aboriginal word for “big lip”, and “warra,” for “house,” and was applied by natives to a house in the locality in which a man with a remarkably big lip lived”[12]
Coonawarra was a station on theMount Gambier railway line, which opened in 1887 and operated until it closed to freight on 12 April 1995. TheLimestone Coast Railway tourist trains stopped at the station from Mount Gambier until 20 March 1999.[citation needed]
The township of Coonawarra is a few hundred metres west of theRiddoch Highway which passes along the ridge in the middle of the Coonawarra wine region. The historicWynn's Coonawarra Winery in Memorial Drive is listed on theSouth Australian Heritage Register.[13]
| Climate data for Coonawarra, elevation 57 m (187 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1985–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 44.5 (112.1) | 43.6 (110.5) | 40.8 (105.4) | 36.2 (97.2) | 29.9 (85.8) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.2 (73.8) | 25.5 (77.9) | 31.2 (88.2) | 35.8 (96.4) | 37.9 (100.2) | 45.8 (114.4) | 45.8 (114.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.6 (81.7) | 24.9 (76.8) | 21.0 (69.8) | 17.1 (62.8) | 14.5 (58.1) | 13.9 (57.0) | 14.9 (58.8) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.8 (67.6) | 22.8 (73.0) | 25.3 (77.5) | 20.5 (68.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 11.8 (53.2) | 12.0 (53.6) | 10.2 (50.4) | 7.6 (45.7) | 6.8 (44.2) | 5.3 (41.5) | 5.2 (41.4) | 5.3 (41.5) | 6.4 (43.5) | 7.4 (45.3) | 8.9 (48.0) | 10.2 (50.4) | 8.1 (46.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.2 (32.4) | 2.2 (36.0) | 0.0 (32.0) | −2.2 (28.0) | −3.0 (26.6) | −3.8 (25.2) | −3.4 (25.9) | −3.6 (25.5) | −2.6 (27.3) | −2.2 (28.0) | −0.2 (31.6) | 0.2 (32.4) | −3.8 (25.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 28.7 (1.13) | 19.2 (0.76) | 26.3 (1.04) | 36.4 (1.43) | 55.6 (2.19) | 72.4 (2.85) | 76.8 (3.02) | 80.7 (3.18) | 64.9 (2.56) | 41.8 (1.65) | 37.6 (1.48) | 34.0 (1.34) | 575.1 (22.64) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 6.9 | 6.1 | 8.5 | 11.8 | 17.0 | 18.6 | 20.6 | 20.6 | 19.1 | 14.2 | 11.2 | 10.4 | 165.0 |
| Average afternoonrelative humidity (%) | 38 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 62 | 69 | 69 | 63 | 60 | 53 | 48 | 43 | 53 |
| Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (humidity 1991–2010)[14] | |||||||||||||
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