Mount Benson (South Australia)

This article is about the hill in Australia. For the locality, see Mount Benson, South Australia. For other uses, see Mount Benson (disambiguation).

Mount Benson South Australia
Mount Benson
Coordinates	37°1′59″S 139°48′41″E / 37.03306°S 139.81139°E / -37.03306; 139.81139Coordinates: 37°1′59″S 139°48′41″E / 37.03306°S 139.81139°E / -37.03306; 139.81139
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)^[1]
Location	10 km (6 mi) north northeast of Robe^[2]
LGA(s)	District Council of Robe

Mount Benson is a hill located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north north-east of Robe in the south east of South Australia. It was named in 1839 either by Governor Grey after a stockman employed by Charles Bonney or by Bonney himself. Mount Benson itself is located both within the locality of the same name and the wine region of the same name.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

1 2 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (2010). Pub175, Sailing directions (enroute) north, west, and south coast of Australia (PDF) (10th ed.). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. p. 1216. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
1 2 "Manning Index: Benson, Mount". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
↑ "Mount Benson". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "Property Location Browser Report for Placename Details: Mount Benson, MT". The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
↑ Longbottom, Mardi; Maschmedt, David and Pichler, Markus (2011), Unearthing viticulture in the Limestone Coast (PDF), p. 12, ISBN 978-0-646-56744-0, retrieved 5 November 2014

Limestone Coast, South Australia

Cities

Mount Gambier

Towns and localities

Governance

Federal division	Division of Barker

State electoral districts	Electoral district of MacKillop Electoral district of Mount Gambier

Local Government	City of Mount Gambier District Council of Grant District Council of Robe Kingston District Council Naracoorte Lucindale Council Tatiara District Council Wattle Range Council

Hills, mountains and volcanoes

Caves, sinkholes and freshwater lakes

Islands

Coastal features

Protected areas

National parks	Canunda Coorong (southern end only) Naracoorte Caves

Conservation parks	Aberdour Baudin Rocks Bangham Beachport Belt Hill Big Heath Butchers Gap Calectasia Carpenter Rocks Christmas Rocks Custon Dingley Dell Douglas Point Ewens Ponds Fairview Furner Geegeela Glen Roy Gower Grass Tree Guichen Bay Gum Lagoon Hacks Lagoon Hanson Scrub Jip Jip Kungari Lake Frome Lake Hawdon Lake St Clair Little Dip Lower Glenelg River Mary Seymour Mount Monster Mount Scott Nene Valley Ngarkat Padthaway Paranki Lagoon Penambol Penguin Island Penola Piccaninnie Ponds Pine Hill Soak Reedy Creek Talapar Tantanoola Caves Telford Scrub Tilley Swamp Vivigani Ardune Woakwine Wolseley Common

Game reserves	Bool Lagoon Bucks Lake Lake Robe Poocher Swamp

Conservation reserves	Desert Camp Bernouilli

Related and uncategorised

Limestone Coast zone (wine)

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