Grant Council
| District Council of Grant | |
 Location of the Grant Council in South Australia |
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 Australia
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| State : |
 South Australia
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| Administrative headquarters: | Mount Gambier |
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| Area : | 1,904 km² |
| Residents : | 8,203 (2016) |
| Population density : | 4.3 inhabitants per km² |
Coordinates: 37 ° 50 ′ S , 140 ° 47 ′ E The District Council of Grant is a local government area (LGA) in the Australian state of South Australia . The area is 1,904 km² and has around 8,200 inhabitants (2016).
Grant is located in the extreme southeast of South Australia on the border with Victoria about 380 km southeast of the metropolis of Adelaide and 370 km west of Melbourne . The area includes 34 hamlets and villages: Allendale East, Blackfellows Caves, Burrungule, Canunda, Cape Douglas, Caroline, Carpenter Rocks, Caveton, Compton, Dismal Swamp, Donovans, Eight Mile Creek, German Creek, Glenburnie, Kongorong, Mil-Lel, Mingbool, Moorak, Mount Schank, Nene Valley, OB Flat, Pelican Point, Pleasant Park, Port Macdonnell, Racecourse Bay, Square Mile, Suttontown, Tantanoola, Tarpeena, Wandilo, Wepar, Worrolong, Wye and Yahl. The administrative headquarters of the council is in the city of Mount Gambier , which forms its own LGA, which is surrounded by the Grant District.
administration
Grant's council has ten members and nine councilors are elected by residents of the three wards (seven from the Central Ward, one each from Tarpeena and Port MacDonnell Ward). The council chairman and mayor (mayor) is also elected by all residents of the city.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Grant (DC) (Local Government Area) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.