Willalooka, South Australia

Willalooka is a small service town and locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. it is located on the Riddoch Highway between Keith and Padthaway. Christmas Rocks Conservation Park is north of the town adjacent to the highway.

Willalooka
South Australia
Willalooka
Coordinates36°23′38″S 140°20′56″E[1]
Population143 (2016 census)[2]
Established16 March 2000[3]
Postcode(s)5267
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Tatiara District Council[1]
RegionLimestone Coast[1]
CountyBuckingham[1]
State electorate(s)MacKillop[4]
Federal Division(s)Barker[5]
Mean max temp[6] Mean min temp[6] Annual rainfall[6]
22.9 °C
73 °F		 8.0 °C
46 °F		 414.9 mm
16.3 in
Localities around Willalooka:
Laffer Keith Brimbago
Petherick Willalooka Carew
Kongal
Swede Flat
Marcollat Marcollat Swede Flat
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

Services in the town include the Country Fire Service,[7] a community hall, tavern, fuel and general store. The dominant industry in the area is farming, especially sheep.

Near Willalooka is the Darwent Waterhole, called by the local Aborigines kongal, meaning 'water mallee'.[8]

Joseph Darwent, an American steamship owner who took up several pastoral properties near Willalooka in the 1870s.[8] Not to be confused with Joseph Darwent (c. 1824 – 20 October 1872), an English accountant, secretary of the Adelaide City and Port Railway Company, then partner in Darwent & Dalwood who contracted for the northernmost section of the Overland Telegraph Line. Nor his nephew, Joseph Darwent, jun. (1847 – 10 August 1926), from Sheffield, who had a property near Coonawarra and lived in Penola, where he was a member of the District Council for 35 years and Chairman for 25.

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Willalooka had a population of 143 people.[2]

Willalooka is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council.[5][1][4]

Hundred of Willalooka
Hundred of Willalooka
South Australia
EstablishedMarch 3, 1921 (1921-03-03)
Area147 square miles (380 km2)[9]
LGA(s)Tatiara District Council
CountyCounty of Buckingham
Lands administrative divisions around Hundred of Willalooka:
Laffer Stirling Pendleton
Petherick Willalooka Wirrega
Peacock Marcollat Parsons

The bounded locality of Willalooka corresponds precisely in land area to the cadastral Hundred of Willalooka in the County of Buckingham.[10] The hundred was named in 1921 after the earlier pastoral property in the area. Its surveyed area is a rectangle of 147 square miles (380 km2).[9]

See also

References
  1. "Search results for 'Willalooka, LOCB' with the following data sets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian government. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Willalooka". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  3. Lawson, Robert (16 March 2000). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (in the District Council of Tatiara)" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1434. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  4. "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  5. "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  6. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KEITH (MUNKORA) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  7. "SA Country Fire Service Station Willalooka". South Australian Country Fire Service Promotions Unit. 3 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  8. South Australian Names.
  9. "Placename Details: Hundred of Willalooka". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0025361. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  10. "Placename Details: Willalooka". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 5 December 2007. SA0044796. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
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