Earth:Wrattonbully, South Australia

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Short description: Town in South Australia
Wrattonbully
South Australia
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Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 37°10′8″S 140°56′38″E / 37.16889°S 140.94389°E / -37.16889; 140.94389[1]
Established12 April 2001[2]
Postcode(s)5271[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)Naracoorte Lucindale Council[4]
State electorate(s)MacKillop[5]
Federal Division(s)Barker[6]
Localities around Wrattonbully:
Joanna Koppamurra Langkoop
Wrattonbully
Glenroy Comaum Poolaijelo

Wrattonbully is a locality located within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council in the Limestone Coast in the south east of South Australia about 327 kilometres (203 miles) south east of the Adelaide city centre. Wrattonbully gives its name to the wine region surrounding it, the Wrattonbully wine region.[7][8]

Wrattonbully was established following World War II in 1946 as a soldier settlement scheme. Seventeen farms were allocated to returned soldiers. The community hall was established in 1958. Wrattonbully shares a single CFS brigade with the neighbouring locality of Joanna.

Wrattonbully is located within the federal Division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop, and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council.[1][5][6]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Search result for "Wrattonbully (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0028290) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Place names (gazetteer)", "Road Labels" and "Development Plan Layers"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/#. 
  2. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign a Boundary to a Place (to areas within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council)". South Australian government. 12 April 2001. p. 1587. http://governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/public/documents/gazette/2001/April/2001_041.pdf. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Wrattonbully, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. http://www.postcodes-australia.com/areas/sa/country+south+australia/wrattonbully. 
  4. "Naracoorte Lucindale Council". Local Government Association (LGA) of South Australia. http://www.lga.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?c=4187. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/component/edocman/?task=document.download&id=564&Itemid=0. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Federal electoral division of Barker". Australian Electoral Commission. http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/sa/files/2011/2011-aec-a4-map-sa-barker.pdf. 
  7. Template:Gazetteer of Australia
  8. Longbottom, Mardi; Maschmedt, David and Pichler, Markus (2011), Unearthing viticulture in the Limestone Coast, p. 12, ISBN 978-0-646-56744-0, http://research.agwa.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/FS-2011-Viticulture-Limestone-Coast.pdf, retrieved 5 November 2014 

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