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South Stirling is a small town in the Australian state of Western Australia . It is located about 46 kilometers northeast of Albany .
geography
South Stirling is located in the agricultural area of the Great Southern a few kilometers south of the Stirling Range and the Stirling Range National Park .
To the west of South Sterling is Palmdale , to the north and west of Takalarup , to the east of Kojaneerup South and to the south of Manyeaks .
Close to the village is the South Stirling Nature Reserve and Warburton Lake .
The place has its own school, the South Stirling Primary School , with 22 students in two classes. There is an Anglican church across the street .
history
The place is located in the traditional settlement area of the Aboriginal tribe of the Mineng .
At the beginning of the 1950s, the government released the region for settlement. After enough farmers had settled down, South Stirling was added to the register of places as a separate town site in 1959. The name is derived from the Stirling Range, named after James Stirling , the first governor of Western Australia.
population
South Stirling had a population of 12 people in 2016, 69.2% male and 30.8% female.
The average age in the Green Range is 34 years, four years less than the Australian average of 38 years.
Personalities
- Hockey player Kathryn Slattery grew up on a farm in South Stirling.
Web links
- South Stirling Primary School (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : South Stirling ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Accessed July 14, 2019.
- ^ South Stirling Primary School Info. In: Facebook. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ^ Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Synod (2015-2017) . In: The Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Bunbury (Ed.): Diocesan Reports . Book Three, 2016, pp. 3 ( squarespace.com [PDF; accessed July 15, 2019]).
- ↑ Town names. In: Landgate. Western Australian Land Information Authority, accessed July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Kathryn Slattery Australian Olympic Committee (English). Retrieved July 14, 2019