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Yorke Peninsula

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The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. [1]

93 relations: Adam Goodes, Adelaide, Adelaide Football Club, Adelaide Thunderbirds, Agriculture, Alby Mangels, Althorpe Islands Conservation Park, Ardrossan, South Australia, Arrium, Arthurton, Australian Shield, AWB Limited, Barley, Bernie Vince, Bird Islands Conservation Park, Brownlow Medal, Cape York Peninsula, Carribie Conservation Park, Charles Philip Yorke, Clinton Conservation Park, Clinton, South Australia, Copper Coast, Cowell, South Australia, Curramulka, Division of Grey, Dolomite, Dusk, Electoral district of Frome, Electoral district of Goyder, Electoral district of Yorke Peninsula, Emily Taheny, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Yorke Block, Ferry, Fiona O'Loughlin (comedian), George Hewett (footballer), Gulf St Vincent, Gulf St Vincent Important Bird Area, Harry Bartlett (Australian politician), Hummock Range, Important Bird Area, Innes National Park, Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, Investigator Strait, Jarrad Redden, Jay Schulz, Jetty, John Olsen, Kadina, South Australia, Kangaroo Island, ..., Köppen climate classification, Ketch, Leven Beach Conservation Park, Lucky Bay, Maitland, South Australia, Malcolm Karpany, Matthew Flinders, Mediterranean climate, Melbourne Football Club, Minlacowie Conservation Park, Minlaton, South Australia, Moonta, South Australia, Narungga, Nicolas Baudin, North Melbourne Football Club, Paskeville, South Australia, Peninsula, Point Davenport Conservation Park, Point Pearce, South Australia, Port, Port Adelaide Football Club, Port Giles, South Australia, Queensland, Ramsay Conservation Park, Richard Champion, Richard Williams (RAAF officer), Sam Jacobs (footballer), Schooner, Scott McMahon, South Australia, Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area, Spencer Gulf, Stansbury, South Australia, Steamship, Sydney Swans, Thidna Conservation Park, Troubridge Island Conservation Park, Wallaroo, South Australia, Warrenben Conservation Park, West Coast Eagles, Wills Creek Conservation Park, Yorke Peninsula Country Times, Yorketown, South Australia. Expand index (43 more) »

Adam Goodes

Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans team in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Adelaide Football Club

The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Adelaide Thunderbirds

The Adelaide Thunderbirds is an Australian netball team based in Adelaide who compete in the Australian Suncorp Super Netball.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Alby Mangels

Albertus Zwier "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November 1948) is an Australian adventurer and documentary film-maker widely remembered for his World Safari adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Safari III).

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Althorpe Islands Conservation Park

Althorpe Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia occupying the Althorpe Islands, Haystack Island and Seal Island in Investigator Strait near the town of Stenhouse Bay.

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Ardrossan, South Australia

Ardrossan is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of the Yorke Peninsula, about by road from the Adelaide city centre, It is notable for its deepwater shipping port and its towering coastal cliffs of red clay.

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Arrium

Arrium was an Australian mining and materials company.

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Arthurton

Arthurton is a settlement in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Australian Shield

The Australian Shield, also called the Western Australian Shield or Western Plateau, occupies more than half of the continent of Australia.

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AWB Limited

AWB Limited was a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Bernie Vince

Bernard Vince (born 2 October 1985) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Bird Islands Conservation Park

Bird Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in eastern Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

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Brownlow Medal

The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Carribie Conservation Park

Carribie Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about west of Warooka.

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Charles Philip Yorke

Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834), was a British politician.

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Clinton Conservation Park

Clinton Conservation Park is a protected area located on the coastline at the north end of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia.

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Clinton, South Australia

Clinton (also known as Port Clinton) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula overlooking the north west head of Gulf St Vincent about west of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Copper Coast

*This article is about a region in Australia.

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Cowell, South Australia

Cowell is a coastal town on Franklin Harbor on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia on the Lincoln Highway 111 km south of the major town of Whyalla.

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Curramulka

Curramulka is a town in the Australian state of South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula.

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Division of Grey

The Division of Grey is an Australian electoral division in South Australia.

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Dolomite

Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite.

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Dusk

Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before night.

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Electoral district of Frome

Frome is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.

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Electoral district of Goyder

Goyder was an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly.

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Electoral district of Yorke Peninsula

Yorke Peninsula was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state (colony until 1901) of South Australia from 1884 to 1902 and from 1915 to 1970.

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Emily Taheny

Emily Taheny is an Australian television actress, comedian, and singer known for her multiple appearances on the sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc. from 2003 through 2007, and for her role as "Kat" on the 2009 series The Jesters.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Eyre Yorke Block

The Eyre Yorke Block is an interim Australian bioregion and a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion covering part of the Eyre Peninsula and all of Yorke Peninsula as well as land to its immediate east in South Australia.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Fiona O'Loughlin (comedian)

Fiona Taheny (born 16 July 1963), commonly known as Fiona O'Loughlin, is an Australian comedian living in Melbourne, known primarily for her stand-up comedy; for her television performances, on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks, and Network Ten's Rove Live, Good News Week, Show Me the Movie! and Hughesy, We Have a Problem and a series of advertisements for Heinz soups.

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George Hewett (footballer)

George Hewett (born 29 December 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Gulf St Vincent

Gulf St Vincent is a large inlet of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia.

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Gulf St Vincent Important Bird Area

The Gulf St Vincent Important Bird Area comprises land extending along the coast of Gulf St Vincent, north of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Harry Bartlett (Australian politician)

Henry Bartlett (6 January 1835 – 8 July 1915), invariably known as "Harry", was a politician in the colony of South Australia, dubbed "Father of the West Coast".

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Hummock Range

The Hummocks or Hummock Range is a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges extending north from the eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Innes National Park

Innes National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the southwest tip of Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia

The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian Government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.

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Investigator Strait

Investigator Strait is a body of water in South Australia lying between the Yorke Peninsula, on the Australian mainland, and Kangaroo Island.

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Jarrad Redden

Jarrad Redden (born 27 December 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Jay Schulz

Jay Schulz (born 18 April 1985) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League from 2010 to 2016.

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Jetty

A jetty is a structure that projects from the land out into water.

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John Olsen

John Wayne Olsen, AO (born 7 June 1945) is a former politician, diplomat and lobbyist.

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Kadina, South Australia

Kadina is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of the Australian state of South Australia, approximately 144 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Ketch

A ketch is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast).

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Leven Beach Conservation Park

Leven Beach Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of the lower part of Yorke Peninsula within the boundaries of the gazetted localities of Point Souttar and The Pines about west north-west of Point Turton.

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Lucky Bay

Lucky Bay is a bay located at on the south coast of Western Australia, in the Cape Le Grand National Park.

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Maitland, South Australia

Maitland is a town in South Australia located 168 km west of Adelaide by road, 164 km south of Port Pirie and 46 km north of Minlaton known as the "heart of Yorke Peninsula" due to being near the centre of the region.

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Malcolm Karpany

Malcolm Karpany (born 1 June 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Minlacowie Conservation Park

Minlacowie Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about west of Stansbury.

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Minlaton, South Australia

Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

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Moonta, South Australia

Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Narungga

The Narungga, otherwise known as the Narangga, are a group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands are located throughout Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

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Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.

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North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

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Paskeville, South Australia

Paskeville is a town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

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Peninsula

A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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Point Davenport Conservation Park

Point Davenport Conservation Park is a protected area occupying Point Davenpoint, a headland between Foul Bay and Sturt Bay on the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia about south of Warooka.

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Point Pearce, South Australia

Point Pearce is a town in the Australian state of South Australia.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

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Port Giles, South Australia

Port Giles is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Ramsay Conservation Park

Ramsay Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Yorke Peninsula in the locality of Ramsay about west-northwest of the town of Port Vincent.

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Richard Champion

Richard Champion (born 14 April 1968 on Yorke Peninsula in Kadina, South Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL) and South Australian National Football Leagues (SANFL).

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Richard Williams (RAAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, (3 August 18907 February 1980) is widely regarded as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

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Sam Jacobs (footballer)

Sam Jacobs (born 10 April 1988) is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts.

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Scott McMahon

Scott McMahon (born 2 June 1986) is a former professional Australian Rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area is a tract of land consisting of most of the south-western tip of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia about west of Adelaide.

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Spencer Gulf

The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight.

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Stansbury, South Australia

Stansbury (postcode 5582) is a small town, located in the southern east coast of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Thidna Conservation Park

Thidna Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of the municipal seat of Maitland.

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Troubridge Island Conservation Park

Troubridge Island Conservation Park is a protected area includes all of Troubridge Island and some adjoining waters about East-southeast of Edithburgh in South Australia and about southwest of Adelaide.

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Wallaroo, South Australia

Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, northwest of Adelaide.

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Warrenben Conservation Park

Warrenben Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about north-east of Marion Bay.

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West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles, also known as West Coast, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wills Creek Conservation Park

Wills Creek Conservation Park is a protected area located on the Yorke Peninsula adjoining the north west coast of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia immediately east of Price.

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Yorke Peninsula Country Times

The Yorke Peninsula Country Times is a South Australian newspaper which was first published on 4 September 1968.

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Yorketown, South Australia

Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula.

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Yorke's Peninsula, Yorkes Peninsula.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorke_Peninsula

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