| Type: | suburb |
| Mount Clarence Station | |
| State: | sa |
| Coordinates: | -29.094°N 134.5748°W |
| Coord Ref: | [1] |
| Pop: | 10 (shared with other localities) |
| Established: | 26 April 2013 |
| Postcode: | 5723 |
| Timezone: | ACST |
| Utc: | +9:30 |
| Timezone-Dst: | ACST |
| Utc-Dst: | +10:30 |
| Dist1: | 771 |
| Dir1: | NW |
| Location1: | Adelaide |
| Dist2: | 37 |
| Dir2: | W |
| Location2: | Coober Pedy |
| Lga: | Pastoral Unincorporated Area |
| Region: | Far North |
| Stategov: | Giles[2] |
| Fedgov: | Grey[3] |
| Maxtemp: | 27.8 |
| Maxtemp Footnotes: | [4] |
| Mintemp: | 14.2 |
| Rainfall: | 133.8 |
| Near-N: | Mount Willoughby |
| Near-Ne: | Mount Willoughby |
| Near-Sw: | Mabel Creek |
| Footnotes: | Locations Adjoining localities |
Mount Clarence Station is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the town of Coober Pedy.[1]
Mount Clarence Station's boundaries were created on 26 April 2013 and given the “local established name” which is derived from the pastoral station of the same name. The term ‘Station’ was included in the name to distinguish it from another places in Australia. Its boundaries align approximately with those of the pastoral station.[5] [1]
The following roads which are maintained by the South Australian government enter the locality from the Stuart Highway to the immediate east of the locality - the Anne Beadell Highway in the south and the Mount Clarence Road in the north.[1] The Anne Beadell Highway continues in its state-maintained form across the railway line and terminates at the Mabel Creek homestead in the north-west after which it continues to the west while the Mount Clarence Road terminates at the Mount Clarence Station homestead.[1]
The Adelaide–Darwin railway passes from south to north through the western side of the locality where a siding named Manguri is located near the site of the government town of Manguri.[1]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Clarence Station and parts of localities located to the immediate east shared a population of 10 people.
Mount Clarence Station is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Giles, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state government region of the Far North.[3] [1]
Manguri (-28.9698°N 134.3776°W) is a town proclaimed by the South Australian government on 8 December 1977. It is located about west of Coober Pedy on the east side of the Adelaide–Darwin railway. The town occupies a rectangular area with the following gazetted dimensions - on its north-west and south-east sides by on its north-east and south-west sides. The name is an Aboriginal word previously used for the local railway station and whose meaning is unknown. Since 2013, it has been located within the locality of Mount Clarence Station.[6] [7] [8]