Sultana Point, South Australia

Sultana Point is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining the western head of Gulf St Vincent about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the state capital of Adelaide.[3]

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the associated headland, see Sultana Point.

Sultana Point South Australia
Sultana Point
Coordinates	35°07′00″S 137°44′29″E
Population	516 (locality) (shared with Edithburgh) (2016 census)[1] [lower-alpha 1]
Established	2013[2]
Postcode(s)	5583 [3]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	80 km (50 mi) west of Adelaide
LGA(s)	Yorke Peninsula Council [2]
Region	Yorke and Mid North[4]
County	Fergusson[2]
State electorate(s)	Narungga[5]
Federal Division(s)	Grey[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 20.4 °C ^69 °F 12.1 °C ^54 °F 372.5 mm ^14.7 in
Suburbs around Sultana Point: Edithburgh Edithburgh Gulf St Vincent Edithburgh Sultana Point Gulf St Vincent Gulf St Vincent Gulf St Vincent Gulf St Vincent
Footnotes	Distances[3] Coordinates[2] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[8]

Its boundaries were created in November 2011 in response to a request from the then District Council of the Yorke Peninsula to “formally recognise this long established community.”[2] The locality is bounded to the north by Hilsea Road and by Wattle Bay Road to the west.[8]

At the 2016 census, the locality shared a population of 516 with the adjoining locality of Edithburgh .[1]

Sultana Point is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.[2][5][6]

See also

• List of cities and towns in South Australia
• Sultana (disambiguation)

References

Notes

1. For the 2016 census, the 'State Suburb of Edithburgh' consisted of the localities of Edithburgh and Sultana Point.

Citations

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Edithburgh (state suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
2. "Search result for "Sultana Point (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0002841) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "counties" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
3. "Sultana Point Postcode". Australian Postcode Search. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
4. "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
5. Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
6. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
7. "Summary statistics EDITHBURGH". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
8. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Alter the Names and Boundaries of Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 10 November 2011. p. 4444. Retrieved 2 November 2015.