Charra, South Australia
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  Charra | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 32°04′30″S 133°19′26″E / 32.074894°S 133.323842°E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 19 September 1889 (town)
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| Abolished | 16 May 1929 (town)[4] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 26 (SAL 2021)[7] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5690[2] | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 23.5 °C (74.3 °F)[8] | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 10.4 °C (50.7 °F)[8] | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 294.6 mm (11.60 in)[8] | ||||||||||||
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Charra is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 584 kilometres (363 miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 33 kilometres (21 miles) west of the municipal seat of Ceduna.[1][2]
Charra consists of land in the cadastral units of the hundreds of Horn in the west and Bartlett in the east.[1]
The name Charra was first used in 1864 in the name of a pastoral lease known as the "Charra Run" which was held by Messrs. R.B. Smith and W.R. Swan. A government town of the same name was proclaimed on 19 September 1889 and on 16 May 1929 was proclaimed as "ceased to exist".[3][4] The name was later given to a railway station on the Penong branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway which is located within the present locality. The name was given to the locality were created in January 1999 and whose boundaries include the ceased government town. Three schools are connected historically to the name with the first operating from 1897 to 1902, the second, the Charra Plains School, operating from 1933 to 1940 and the third, the Charra Woolshed School, which operated from 1904 to 1931 when it was renamed as "Uworra" until its closure in 1944.[9][1]
As of 2012, the majority land use within the locality was agriculture while the land adjoining the coastline in the south being zoned for conservation.[10]
Charra is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Ceduna.[1][6][5]
People
- Kade Chandler (born 2000) – Australian rules footballer for Melbourne[11]
- Jay Polkinghorne (born 2006) – Australian rules footballer for Geelong[11]
References
Notes
Citations
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Search results for "Charra, LOCB" with the following datasets selected – "Suburbs and localities", "Counties", "Government Towns", "Hundreds", "Local Government Areas", "SA Government Regions", and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "Charra, South Australia (Postcode)". Postcodes Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- 1 2 Cockburn, John A. (19 September 1889). "Untitled proclamation re the "Town of Charra"" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 1249. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- 1 2 Tassie, =H. (16 May 1929). "Towns of Mallett, Barndioota, and Charra to cease to exist" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 995. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- 1 2 "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Charra (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- 1 2 3 "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Ceduna AMO (nearest weather station)". Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ↑ "Charra, nomenclature". Place names of South Australia. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- ↑ "Development Plan – Ceduna (DC) Consolidated – 18 October 2012" (PDF). Government of South Australia. pp. 117, 153, 211 and 216–226. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- 1 2 Peterson, Joel (9 May 2026). "When you grow up where Kade Chandler did, everything involves the path less travelled". AFL.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 July 2026. Retrieved 17 July 2026.