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Way South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 31°53′05″S 133°40′07″E / 31.884608°S 133.668578°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 16 January 1889 [2] | ||||||||||||||
Area | 6,800 km2 (2,610 sq mi) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining counties [1] |
The County of Way is one of the 49 counties of South Australia on the state's west coast. [1] It was proclaimed circa 1889 by Governor William Robinson and named for Samuel Way, the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court at the time. [1]
It covers a portion of the state's west coast from Acraman Creek Conservation Park, just west of Streaky Bay, to Watraba, about 53 kilometres (33 mi) west of Ceduna [1] The northern half of the county spans most of the Yumbarra Conservation Park.
The County of Way contains the following 13 hundreds, covering approximately the southern half of its total area:
Derivation of Name: Chief Justice Samuel J Way; Other Details: Area 2610 square miles. Located 31:51S, 133:40E. The Right Sir Samuel James Way, Baronet, P.C. & Chief Justice.
This article relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (November 2019) |
Way South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 31°53′05″S 133°40′07″E / 31.884608°S 133.668578°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 16 January 1889 [2] | ||||||||||||||
Area | 6,800 km2 (2,610 sq mi) [1] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | |||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining counties [1] |
The County of Way is one of the 49 counties of South Australia on the state's west coast. [1] It was proclaimed circa 1889 by Governor William Robinson and named for Samuel Way, the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court at the time. [1]
It covers a portion of the state's west coast from Acraman Creek Conservation Park, just west of Streaky Bay, to Watraba, about 53 kilometres (33 mi) west of Ceduna [1] The northern half of the county spans most of the Yumbarra Conservation Park.
The County of Way contains the following 13 hundreds, covering approximately the southern half of its total area:
Derivation of Name: Chief Justice Samuel J Way; Other Details: Area 2610 square miles. Located 31:51S, 133:40E. The Right Sir Samuel James Way, Baronet, P.C. & Chief Justice.