Barndioota, South Australia

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.[2][1]

Barndioota
South Australia
Barndioota
Coordinates31°55′31″S 138°10′37″E[1]
EstablishedApril 1883 (town)
25 November 1999 (locality)[1]>[2]
Postcode(s)5434
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)Flinders Ranges Council[1]
RegionFar North[1]
CountyBlachford[1]
State electorate(s)Giles
Federal Division(s)Grey
Mean max temp[3] Mean min temp[3] Annual rainfall[3]
25.3 °C
78 °F		 10.7 °C
51 °F		 307.2 mm
12.1 in
Localities around Barndioota:
Lake Torrens Station Flinders Ranges Flinders Ranges
Wallerberdina Barndioota Hawker
Yadlamalka, Yarrah Kanyaka Kanyaka
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Adnyamathanha peoples.[4]

Mount Eyre which is located in the northern part of the locality was "the northern most point of Eyre's 1839 expedition and named by Governor Gawler on 11 July 1839."[5][6]

In April 2016, Wallerberdina Station in Barndioota was proposed as a possible site for a government-owned nuclear waste storage facility.[7] The proposal met opposition from locals, Aboriginal people and environmental groups. A decision on this is not expected soon.

References
  1. "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. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 2442, 25 November 1999, retrieved 27 January 2018
  3. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Hawker (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. 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).
  5. "Search result for "Mount Eyre, MT" with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  6. Manning, Geoffrey. "South Australian Names - E" (PDF). Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  7. Norman, Jane; staff (29 April 2016). "Nuclear dump: Barndioota station in SA earmarked as site of waste facility". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
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