Warramboo, South Australia

Warramboo
South Australia
Warramboo Methodist Church
Warramboo
Coordinates 33°14′24″S 135°35′42″E / 33.24000°S 135.59500°E / -33.24000; 135.59500Coordinates: 33°14′24″S 135°35′42″E / 33.24000°S 135.59500°E / -33.24000; 135.59500
Population 248 (2006 census)[1]
Postcode(s) 5650[2]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s) Wudinna District Council[3]
State electorate(s) Flinders[4]
Federal Division(s) Grey[5]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
25.2 °C
77 °F		 9.3 °C
49 °F		 313.2 mm
12.3 in
Localities around Warramboo:
Wudinna Wudinna
Kyancutta		 Kyancutta
Koongawa
Cocata Warramboo Koongawa
Palkagee Palkagee
Ulyerra
Hambidge		 Hambidge
Footnotes Locations[2][3]
Climate[6]
Adjoining localities[3]

Warramboo (wɔrˑræmˑbʉː) is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia 334 kilometres (208 mi) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 26 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of the municipal seat of Wudinna.[2][3] It is 189 kilometres (117 mi) north of Port Lincoln on the Tod Highway and is the north-western terminus of the wheat haulage lines radiating from Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula railway.[7] The railway line was built from 1907–1915 to develop the cereal industry.[7] The grain silos are a distinctive local landmark of the town.

At the 2006 census, Warramboo and the surrounding area had a population of 248.[1] Warramboo has little in the way of services, with no shops or petrol stations. However, the local post office [Post Code; 5650] still services the local community, which is mainly engaged in agriculture.

A public school was erected at Warramboo during early European settlement and remained a source of education for children 5–12 years old from 1920 until its closure in 2002. The town hall was also built in the 1920s. The original wood and iron hall was demolished and a new stone hall built in its place in 1934.[8]

The local Australian rules football team (Central Eyre Football Club) was formed from an amalgamation of the Warramboo and Kyancutta Football Clubs in 1986. The Central Eyre Football Club is one of six teams in the Mid West Football League.

The traditional inhabitants of the Warramboo district and much of the South-West region of Eyre Peninsula are the Nawu/Nauo people. The word 'warramboo' means 'a lake/place of water', referring to the prevalence of samphire swamps in the region.[9]

Mining proposal

Iron Road Limited, an Australian iron ore exploration and mining company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:IRD) in Perth, Western Australia, plans to develop a world class magnetite mine and infrastructure near Warramboo.[10]:24 The Central Eyre Iron Project is planned to produce a high quality, low impurity iron concentrate for steel manufacturers, at an output of 24 million tonnes per annum of approximately 67 per cent iron concentrate over almost 30 years. The company has acquired land for a new deep water port at Cape Hardy on the western shore of Spencer Gulf, which would be connected to Warramboo by a 148 kilometres (92 mi) utilities corridor in which would be a substantial standard gauge heavy haul railway, service road, power line and water pipeline.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Warramboo (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Warramboo, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Search result(s) for Warramboo (LOCB) (Record No. SA0018006) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas", "County", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  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 KYANCUTTA (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. 1 2 Twidale, C.R. (1985). Natural History of Eyre Peninsula. Northfield, SA: Royal Society of South Australia (Inc). p. 229. ISBN 0-9596627-3-1.
  8. ↑ Franklin, Erna (1986). Grain Amid Granite: Official History of the District Council of Le Hunte, including the Minnipa-Wudinna district. Wudinna: District Council of Le Hutne. p. 260. ISBN 1-86252-075-5.
  9. ↑ State Library, South Australia. "The Manning Index of South Australia History". Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  10. ↑ Iron Road annual report 2017. Adelaide: Iron Road Limited. 30 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Stocks, Andrew (23 May 2017). "Iron Road presentation to SA Resources & Energy Investment Conference 2017". Iron Road. Iron Road Ltd. Retrieved 25 October 2017.


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