Yorketown (South Australia)

Yorketown
Yorketown Town Hall
State :  Australia State : South Australia
Coordinates : 35 ° 1 ′  S , 137 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 1 ′  S , 137 ° 36 ′  E Area : 1.5  km²
Residents : 642 (2016) Population density : 428 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC +9: 30) Postal code : 5576 LGA : Yorke Peninsula District Council
Yorketown

Yorketown is a small town on the Yorke Peninsula ( English Yorke Peninsula ) in the Australian state of South Australia . In 2016, 642 residents lived in the city.

Yorketown is centrally located in the heel area of the foot-shaped peninsula of which it is the southern center. To the east and south it is about ten kilometers to the coast, to the northwest about 15 kilometers. The place is only about 80 kilometers west of Adelaide as the crow flies ; but on the road around the Gulf Saint Vincent  it is 227 kilometers.

There are around 200 salt lakes around Yorketown , some of them in the urban area. Until the 1950s, salt was extracted and shipped in the area, which made the place prosperous.

Web links

Commons : Yorketown, South Australia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yorke Peninsula: Yorketown

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Yorketown (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Yorketown. (No longer available online.) In: The South Australian Tourism Commission. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; accessed on January 29, 2012 .