Everard Central, South Australia

Everard Central
South Australia
Everard Central
Coordinates 33°57′55″S 138°18′59″E / 33.96528°S 138.31639°E / -33.96528; 138.31639Coordinates: 33°57′55″S 138°18′59″E / 33.96528°S 138.31639°E / -33.96528; 138.31639
Postcode(s) 5461
Location 108 km (67 mi) N of Adelaide
LGA(s) Wakefield Regional Council
State electorate(s) Frome
Federal Division(s)
Localities around Everard Central:
Snowtown[1] Condowie[1] Hart, Blyth[1]
Bumbunga[1] Everard Central Bowillia[1]
Nantawarra[1] Mount Templeton, Whitwarta[1] Stow[1]

Everard Central (33°58′S 138°19′E / 33.967°S 138.317°E / -33.967; 138.317; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North.[1][2] The locality is situated in approximately the southern two thirds of the cadastral Hundred of Everard.[1][3]

Hundred of Everard

Hundred of Everard
South Australia
Established 24 May 1867
Area 215 km2 (83.0 sq mi)
County Stanley
Lands administrative divisions around Hundred of Everard:
Hundred of Barunga Hundred of Boucaut Hundred of Hart
Hundred of Cameron Hundred of Everard Hundred of Blyth
Hundred of Goyder Hundred of Stow Hundred of Hall

The Hundred of Everard is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains containing the Everard Central locality.[3] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley.[4] It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after William Everard (1819–1889), a South Australian parliamentarian.[3] The southern third of the locality of Condowie is also situated inside the bounds of the Hundred of Everard.

Geology

Everard Central contains a series of ephemeral salt lake basins.[5] The lunette formations at the basin edges contain deposits of gypsum. Gypsum for agricultural use is mined at the site, with 35,000 t (34,000 long tons; 39,000 short tons) being obtained by G.J. Mills and McArdle in 2002.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Search result for 'Everard Central, LOCB' (ID SA0023115)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Everard Central, South Australia". Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Search result for 'Hundred of Everard' (ID SA0023127)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  4. ↑ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
  5. ↑ "Geological Survey of South Australia - Burra - S.A. Geological Atlas Series Sheet SI 54-05" (PDF). Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy, Commonwealth of Australia. 22 May 2012. Holocene/Pleistocene Undifferentiated Pleistocene calcrete/gypcrete; Holocene/Quaternary gypsiferous dunes/lunettes
  6. ↑ "Minerals - Gypsum". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2016. Everard: Variable tonnages (35 000 t in 2002) of agricultural gypsum are mined by G.J. Mills and McArdle Pty Ltd from lunette deposits near Everard Central, 15 km east of Lochiel in the State’s Mid North.

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