Barndioota, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Barndioota
State:sa
Coordinates:-31.9254°N 138.1771°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Established:April 1883 (town)
25 November 1999 (locality)
Postcode:5434
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Timezone-Dst:ACST
Utc-Dst:+10:30
Lga:Flinders Ranges Council
County:Blachford
Region:Far North
Stategov:Giles
Fedgov:Grey
Maxtemp:25.3
Maxtemp Footnotes:[2]
Mintemp:10.7
Rainfall:307.2
Near-N:Flinders Ranges
Near-Ne:Flinders Ranges
Near-E:Hawker
Near-Se:Kanyaka
Near-S:Kanyaka
Near-Sw:Yadlamalka, Yarrah
Near-W:Wallerberdina
Near-Nw:Lake Torrens Station
Footnotes:Adjoining localities

Barndioota is a locality and former town in the southern Flinders Ranges west of Hawker. The bounded locality of Barndioota which corresponds to the cadastral Hundred of Barndioota, also includes the former town of Hookina and the site of the ceased Government Town of Barndioota which was surveyed in 1883 and declared ceased to exist in 1929.[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Adnyamathanha peoples.[3]

Mount Eyre which is located in the northern part of the locality was "the northernmost point of Eyre's 1839 expedition and named by Governor Gawler on 11 July 1839."[4] [5]

In April 2016, Wallerberdina Station in Barndioota was proposed as a possible site for a government-owned nuclear waste storage facility.[6] The proposal met opposition from locals, Aboriginal people and environmental groups. A decision on this is not expected soon.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search results for 'Barndioota, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns' 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. 4 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Hawker (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 4 October 2019.
  3. This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, by David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. This map also divides Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania).
  4. Web site: Search result for "Mount Eyre, MT" with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Gazetteer" . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australia . 27 January 2018.
  5. Web site: South Australian Names - E . Manning Index of South Australian History . Geoffrey . Manning . Geoffrey Manning . State Library of South Australia . 27 January 2018 .
  6. News: Nuclear dump: Barndioota station in SA earmarked as site of waste facility . Jane . Norman . staff . . 29 April 2016 . 6 October 2016.