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Mulgundawa, South Australia

Mulgundawa is a locality in South Australia on the north coast of Lake Alexandrina between Langhorne Creek and Wellington. The current boundaries were set in 2000 for the long-established name, derived from the local Aboriginal name for the area. ...

Mundoora, South Australia

Mundoora is a settlement in South Australia, 16 km inland from Port Broughton, to which it was connected by a horse-drawn railway around 1876. Its tram, dubbed "The Pie Cart", which was described as a "kind of second-hand coffin drawn by one hors ...

Mundulla

Mundulla is a town and a locality in south eastern South Australia. The town is located in the local government area of Tatiara District Council about 278 kilometres south east of the state capital of Adelaide. The name of the town is derived fro ...

Murninnie Beach, South Australia

Murminnie Beach is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking Spencer Gulf about 212 kilometres north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 36 kilometres south-west ...

Murray Bridge East, South Australia

Murray Bridge East is a semi-rural satellite locality of Murray Bridge in South Australia east of the Murray River and the eponymous bridge. Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of land immediately across the river to t ...

Murray Mallee

The Murray Mallee is the grain-growing and sheep-farming area of South Australia bounded to the north and west by the Murray River, to the east by the Victorian border, and extending about 50 km south of the Mallee Highway. The Murray Mallee area ...

Mylor, South Australia

Mylor was surveyed in 1885, with a plan to develop the land as a focal point for orchard development in South Australia. The town was proclaimed in 1891 by Acting Governor of South Australia Sir James Boucaut who named it after his Cornish birthp ...

Myponga, South Australia

Myponga is a settlement in South Australia. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 744 of which 393 lived in its town centre. Myponga is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson, and the lo ...

Nadia, South Australia

Nadia is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the states west coast overlooking a bay associated with Great Australian Bight about 567 kilometres north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about 17 kilometres west of t ...

Nalyappa, South Australia

Nalyappa is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Spencer Gulf about 128 kilometres north-west of the state capital of Adelaide. Its boundaries which were created ...

Nangwarry, South Australia

Nangwarry is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 352 kilometres south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 32 kilometres north-west of the regional centre of Mount Gambier. The Town of Nangwar ...

Nantawarra, South Australia

Nantawarra is a locality in South Australia located about 120 kilometres north of the Adelaide city centre and within the local government area known as the Wakefield Regional Council. The locality occupies land on both sides of Highway 1 between ...

Narrung Peninsula

Nurrang Peninsula is a peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south east end of Lake Alexandrina. It is bounded by Lake Alexandrina to the west, by Lake Albert to the north and to the east, and by the Coorong to the s ...

Narrung, South Australia

Narrung is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated at the northern extent of the Narrung Peninsula, which separates The Coorong from Lake Albert adjacent to The Narrows which separates Lake Albert from the l ...

North Beach, South Australia

North Beach is a locality in South Australia located on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Spencer Gulf about 145 kilometres north-west of the Adelaide city centre.

Norton Summit, South Australia

Norton Summit is a town in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, located approximately 12 km east of the city of Adelaide. The town is named after Robert Norton, who arrived in South Australia shortly after its proclamation, and made the first rec ...

Nundroo, South Australia

Nundroo is a small South Australian town, located approximately 1.014 kilometres west of Adelaide. It is a popular rest stop for travellers due to its location on the Eyre Highway. The area was settled by sheep graziers in the 1860s. By the 1870s ...

Oak Valley, South Australia

Oak Valley is the only community of Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Council Local Government Area, South Australia. The population of the LGA was 105 people all in Oak Valley. It is approximately 128 km NNW of the original Maralinga township. It is ...

Oakbank, South Australia

Oakbank is a town in the Adelaide Hills, east of Adelaide in South Australia. It is in the Adelaide Hills Council area. At the 2006 census, Oakbank had a population of 473.

Ooldea, South Australia

Ooldea is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway. Ooldea is 143 km from the bitumen Eyre Highway.

Osborne Naval Shipyard

The Osborne Naval Shipyard is a multi-user facility at Osborne on the Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia. It was established in 1987 for the Australian Submarine Corporation, and the first products of the facility were the six Collins -Class su ...

Painted Desert (South Australia)

The Painted Desert is in the Far North of South Australia. It is 120 kilometres north-east of Coober Pedy, in the Arckaringa Station pastoral lease, not far from the homestead. It is notable for its distinctive mesas, mountains, and geological fo ...

Pallamana, South Australia

Pallamana is where the former Sedan railway line crosses Reedy Creek Road state route B35 which connects Palmer to Murray Bridge. The former station/siding was originally named Preamimma Railway Station. The Murray Bridge Airport is in the southe ...

Palmer, South Australia

Palmer is a town just east of the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia along the Adelaide-Mannum Road, 70 kilometres east-north-east of the state capital, Adelaide and 15 km west-north-west of Mannum. It is located in the Mid Murray Council l ...

Parachilna Gorge

The Parachilna Gorge is a gorge on the western side of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It is located about 8 kilometres east of the small town of Parachilna. Parachilna Creek flows through the gorge. Parachilna Gorge Road runs from Parach ...

Paramatta, South Australia

Paramatta is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Yorke Peninsula on the north-east side of the urban area associated with Moonta about 132 kilometres north-west of the Adelaide city centre. It was named using the ...

Paringa, South Australia

Paringa is a small town in the Riverland of South Australia. Paringa is famous for its vineyards, almond, citrus and stone fruit orchards, and the steel bridge with a span that can be raised to allow houseboats and paddlesteamers to pass undernea ...

Parnaroo

Parnaroo is a rural locality in South Australia, situated east of Peterborough. It shares the same boundaries as the cadastral Hundred of Parnaroo, which was established on 31 October 1878. It was reportedly named for an Aboriginal word meaning " ...

Pedirka Desert

The Pedirka Desert is a small Australian desert, about 100 kilometres north-west of Oodnadatta and 250 kilometres north-east of Coober Pedy in South Australia. Mount Deane and Witjira National Park are just to the north. The desert is relatively ...

Perponda, South Australia

Perponda is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 111 kilometres east of the state capital of Adelaide. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Perponda had a population of ...

Peters Hill, South Australia

Peters Hill, formerly Peters Hill is the highest peak in the Belvidere Range of hills in South Australia, a northern extension of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

Piccadilly, South Australia

Piccadilly is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia. At the 2006 census, Piccadilly had a population of 509. The Piccadilly Valley was for many decades a market gardening centre which produced food for the Adelaide and ...

The Pines, South Australia

The Pines is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of Yorke Peninsula on the portion forming the south coast of Hardwicke Bay in Spencer Gulf about 131 kilometres west of the Adelaide city centre. Its b ...

Pinkerton Plains, South Australia

Pinkerton Plains is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia, Australia. The locality is named for William Pinkerton, an early pastoralist active in the region in the 1840s. The land was originally the land of the Kaurna people. It is uncle ...

Point Avoid

Point Avoid is a headland located at the south eastern extremity of both Coffin Bay Peninsula and Avoid Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 15 kilometres south west of the town of Coffin Bay. It was described in 2017 ...

Point Pearce, South Australia

Point Pearce, also spelt Point Pierce in the past, is a town in the Australian state of South Australia. The town is located in the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area, 194 kilometres north-west of the state capital, Adelaide. At the 20 ...

Point Souttar, South Australia

Point Souttar is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of Yorke Peninsula on the portion forming the south coast of Hardwicke Bay in Spencer Gulf about 121 kilometres west of the Adelaide city centre. I ...

Point Weyland

Point Weyland is a headland located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 4 kilometres west south-west of the town of Venus Bay and about 51 kilometres north north-west of the town of Elliston. The point which is located wi ...

Point Whidbey

Point Whidbey is a headland located at the southern western extremity of both Coffin Bay Peninsula and Avoid Bay on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 34 kilometres west of the town of Coffin Bay. It was described in 2012 a ...

Poltalloch, South Australia

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 south-east of the state capital of Adelaide. Poltalloch began as a private sub-di ...

Pompoota, South Australia

Pompoota is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, on the east bank of the Murray River, downstream of Mannum. It has shacks and irrigated floodplains near the river, and dryland farming on the higher ground away from the rive ...

Poonindie, South Australia

Poonindie is a small township near Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The land upon which it sits was originally the land of the Barngarla people. Poonindie Mission was established as a mission for Aboriginal people in South Aus ...

Porky Flat, South Australia

Porky Flat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian ...

Port Arthur, South Australia

Port Arthur is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Yorke Peninsula at the northern end of Gulf St Vincent about 100 kilometres north west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 9 kilometres north of the town o ...

Port Davis, South Australia

Port Davis is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia on the east coast of Spencer Gulf about 18 kilometres to the west of the city of Port Pirie and about 197 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide. The locality was esta ...

Port Gawler, South Australia

Port Gawler is a locality and former port on Gulf St Vincent on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia. Port Gawler is located 43 kilometres north west of Adelaide in the Adelaide Plains Council local government area at the mouth of the G ...

Port Julia, South Australia

Port Julia is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula about 72 kilometres northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Its boundaries were created in May 1999 for the" long established name” an ...

Port Vincent, South Australia

Port Vincent is a small town on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, 194 km from Adelaide by road. At the 2016 census, Port Vincent had a population of 514.

Price, South Australia

Price is a town and locality on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is within the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area and is 131 kilometres north west of the centre of state capital, Adelaide. At the 2006 census, Price and the surrou ...

Proof Range, South Australia

Proof Range is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the eastern coastline of Gulf St Vincent about 74 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide and about 6 kilometres south of the town centre of Port ...