Lincoln National Park (locality)

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the associated protected area, see Lincoln National Park.

Lincoln National Park is a locality located on the Jussieu Peninsula at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about 250 kilometres (160 miles) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 13 kilometres (8.1 miles) south of the city of Port Lincoln.^[3]

Lincoln National Park South Australia
Curta Rocks, South Australia
Lincoln National Park
Coordinates	34°51′34″S 135°53′27″E[1]
Population	0 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	2003[1]
Postcode(s)	5607[3]
Area	260 km2 (100.4 sq mi)
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	250.4 km (156 mi) W of Adelaide[3] 13 km (8 mi) S of Port Lincoln[3]
LGA(s)	District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[1]
Region	Eyre Western[1]
County	Flinders[1]
State electorate(s)	Flinders[4]
Federal division(s)	Grey[5]
Mean max temp[6] Mean min temp[6] Annual rainfall[6] 21.2 °C 70 °F 11.3 °C 52 °F 383.2 mm 15.1 in
Suburbs around Lincoln National Park: Port Lincoln (body of water) Sleaford Lincoln National Park Spencer Gulf Great Australian Bight
Footnotes	Adjoining localities

The boundaries of the locality were created on 30 September 2003 for the “long established name.”^[1][7]

The locality covers the full extent of the Jussieu Peninsula east of the eastern boundary of the cadastral unit, the Hundred of Sleaford. The full extent of the locality does align with the full extent of the Hundred of Flinders, a cadastral unit with an area of 260 square kilometres (101 sq mi), and which was proclaimed by Governor Le Hunte in 1903 and which was named after the British navigator, Matthew Flinders.^[1][8][9]

The principal land use within the locality is conservation with its full extent being occupied by the following protected areas - the portion of the Lincoln National Park located within the Hundred of Flinders and the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.^[10][1]

The locality includes the two following state heritage places - the site of the memorial (known as the Memory Cove Tablet) installed by Flinders in 1802 at Memory Cove in memory of the loss of eight crew from HMS Investigator and the Flinders Monument at Stamford Hill.^[11][12]

Lincoln National Park is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.^[1][5][4]

See also

• Cape Catastrophe

References

Notes

Citations

1. "Search results for 'Lincoln National Park, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Lincoln National Park (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. "Postcode for Lincoln National Park, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
4. "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
5. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
6. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics NORTH SHIELDS (PORT LINCOLN AWS)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
7. Weatherill, J. (16 October 2003), "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 3796, retrieved 16 February 2016
8. "Search result for "HUNDRED OF FLINDERS" (Record no SA0024419)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
9. Jenkins, J.G. (26 November 1903). "NEW HUNDREDS CONSTITUTED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 74. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
10. "Development Plan - Lower Eyre Peninsula (DC) Consolidated – 19 February 2015" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 95 & 194. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
11. "Memory Cove Tablet Site, Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
12. "Memory Cove Tablet Site, Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 23 March 2016.