Bookabie, South Australia Explained

Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 648km (403miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 103km (64miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna.^{[1] [4]}

The name was first used for a town located in the Hundred of Magarey which was surveyed in July 1890 and officially named by Governor Kintore on 27 August 1891.^{[1] [2]} The name was recorded by the journalist, Daisy Bates, as being derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “bad water” which was used by local Aboriginal people for a waterhole near the town. Boundaries for the locality including the town were created on 23 October 2003 with some additional “unincorporated land” being added on 26 April 2013.^{[9] [1]}

The locality of Bookabie consists of land associated with a section of coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the eastern side of Fowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland.^[1] The Eyre Highway passes through the locality in an east-west direction.^[1] As of 2012, the majority land use within the locality was agriculture while the land adjoining the coastline in the south being zoned for conservation.^[10]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that the localities of Bookabie and Penong shared a population of 289 people.^[1]

Bookabie is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.^{[1] [7] [6]}

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1. Web site: Search results for 'Bookabie, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'. Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. 28 January 2019.
2. Web site: Bray . J.C. . Untitled proclamation re the Town of Bookabie . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 27 January 2019 . 487–488 . 27 August 1891.
3. Web site: Weatherill . Jay . GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 27 January 2019 . 3859 . "...assign the names YUNTA, BLINMAN, BOOKABIE, GLENDAMBO, YALATA, KINGOONYA, OLARY, INNAMINCKA, and MANNA HILL to those areas...". 23 October 2001.
4. Web site: Bookabie, South Australia (Postcode) . postcodes-australia.com . 23 July 2016.
5. Web site: Eyre and Western South Australian Government Region. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2016. 16 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141216072250/http://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/21249/Eyre_Western_SA_Government_region.pdf. dead.
6. Web site: District of Flinders Background Profile. Electoral Commission SA. 9 September 2015.
7. Web site: Federal electoral division of Grey. Australian Electoral Commission. 24 July 2015.
8. Web site: Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics FOWLERS BAY (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 23 July 2016.
9. Web site: Bookabie, nomenclature . Place names of South Australia . State Library of South Australia . 23 July 2016.
10. Web site: Development Plan, Land Not Within a Council Area Eyre, Far North, Riverland and Whyalla – 18 October 2012 . Government of South Australia . 2012 . 16 September 2015 . 101, 110, 161 and 200–203 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923004420/http://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/23484/Land_Not_Within_a_Council_Area_Eyre_Far_North_Riverland_and_Whyalla_Development_Plan.pdf . 23 September 2015 . dmy-all .