Minlaton, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Minlaton
State:sa
Coordinates:-34.7725°N 137.5941°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Use Lga Map:yes
Established:1876 (town)
1999 (locality)
Postcode:5575
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Timezone-Dst:ACST
Utc-Dst:+10:30
Dist1:198
Dir1:W
Location1:Adelaide
Dist3:96
Dir3:S
Location3:Kadina
Dist2:46
Dir2:S
Lga:Yorke Peninsula Council
County:Fergusson
Region:Yorke and Mid North
Stategov:Narungga[2]
Fedgov:Grey[3]
Location2:Maitland
Near-E:Curramulka
Ramsay
Near-Sw:Spencer Gulf
Near-W:Parsons Beach
Near-Ne:Curramulka
Footnotes:Adjoining localities

Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It is known as the "Barley capital of the world", due to the rich Barley production in the region.

Minlaton was the hometown of Harry Butler, a World War I flying ace. His Bristol M1C monoplane has been restored and is preserved in pride of place in a building the centre of the town. When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton in 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere.

Minlaton is in the District Council of Yorke Peninsula, the federal Division of Grey[4] and the state electoral district of Narungga.[2]

Climate

Minlaton, like most of the Yorke Peninsula, has a dry mediterranean climate bordering on semi-arid. Annual rainfall is around 3600NaN0, most of which falls in the winter months.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search results for 'Minlaton, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns','Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australia . 15 December 2022.
  2. Narungga . Electoral District Boundaries Commission . 2016 . 1 March 2018.
  3. Web site: Federal electoral division of Grey. Australian Electoral Commission. 24 July 2015.
  4. Web site: Localities. Australian Electoral Commission. 2010-07-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706121717/http://apps.aec.gov.au/eSearch/LocalitySearchResults.aspx?filter=5575&filterby=Postcode. 6 July 2011. dead.