Earth:Kongorong, South Australia
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| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 37°54′00″S 140°33′18″E / 37.8999°S 140.5549°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 30 March 1922 (town) 31 October 1996 (locality)[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5291 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Grant[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Limestone Coast[5] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Grey[4] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mount Gambier[6] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker[7] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[4] | ||||||||||||||
Kongorong is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located southwest of Mount Gambier.[4] It has an Australian rules football team and netball team. Kongorong Primary School had 61 students in 2010.[9]
History
Kongorong was officially named by the South Australian Government on 30 March 1922 for the cadastral land division in which the township lay, the Hundred of Kongorong. Kongorong is thought to mean "the corner of it" in an indigenous language.[4][10]
Economy
Kongorong is a service town for the surrounding community involved in dairy and sheep farming, timber plantations, and grape growing in the Mount Gambier wine region.
Governance
Kongorong is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mount Gambier and the local government area of the District Council of Grant.[7][6][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Search results for 'Kongorong, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Government towns', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Government of South Australia. http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=140.59745&y=-37.91698&z=12&uids=19,2,115,11,20,105&pinx=140.555570&piny=-37.899980&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Kongorong,+Locb.
- ↑ Bice, John G. (30 March 1922). "TOWN OF KONGORONG.". South Australian Government. p. 943. http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1922/14/943.pdf.
- ↑ "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places", The South Australian Government Gazette: 1517, 31 October 1996, http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1996/125/1517.pdf, retrieved 17 April 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Placename Details: Kongorong". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 4 March 2010. http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb.
- ↑ "Limestone Coast SA Government region". The Government of South Australia. http://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/8589/Limestone_Coast_SA_Government_region.pdf.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "District of Mount Gambier Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/component/edocman/?task=document.download&id=569&Itemid=0.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Federal electoral division of Barker". Australian Electoral Commission. http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/sa/files/2011/2011-aec-a4-map-sa-barker.pdf.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Mount Gambier Aero (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_026021.shtml.
- ↑ "Kongorong Primary & CPC". Department for Education and Child Development. 19 October 2010. http://www.kongoc7.sa.edu.au/.
- ↑ "Placename Details: Hundred of Kongorong". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb. "Aboriginal taken from D Black's station in 1846 - meaning 'the corner of it'. Area 91 square miles."
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