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The district Dawesley of Native Valley in Mount Barker (South Australia) is a district in Australia about 575 mi west of Canberra, the country's capital city.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 33°C / 91 °F
Morning Temperature | 23°C / 73 °F |
Evening Temperature | 27°C / 81 °F |
Night Temperature | 26°C / 79 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 21% |
Air Pressure | 1015 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (5 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
19°C (65 °F)
17°C (63 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
25°C (77 °F)
14°C (57 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 25th of November 2024
28°C (83 °F)
17°C (63 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, scattered clouds.
Videos from this area
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SA CFS and AI System Aerial Fire Intelligence Gathering
Remember this video is FULL HD, switch to HD1080 for better viewing This 16 minute video highlights the "Aerial Information System" software package from UAV Vision Pty Ltd, this combined...
Classic Targa Adelaide 2011 - SS15 - Nairne
Footage from the seventh stage of day two (friday) of the Supaloc Classic Targa Adelaide 2011, Nairne.
Time lapse Hot Pad
Time lapse of Hot Pad training at State Training Centre with CFS Volunteers from Brukunga, Hahndorf, Macclesfield and Nairne.
Visiting Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
These raucous and beautiful cockatoos make wonderful pets and can be trained to "talk" or at least mimic human words and animal sounds. They will often learn to call the family dog for instance....
Erickson Air Crane 733 (Christine)
733 Preflight checks and takeoff. Sorry about the poor quality I did this on a cheap camera phone as it was all I had on me at the time.
Basically Bonkers - Episode Eight - The Hospital (ER)
Deranged, Silly yet Funny Comedy Skits. This is Episode Eight - So the FINAL episode or ER has been aired and the series put to rest ...but WE Needa Hospital Drama Let's put some MEAT into...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Mount Barker, South Australia
Mount Barker is an expanding city, home to 10 258 residents that is 33 kilometres up the South Eastern Freeway, east of Adelaide, in South Australia. It is the seat of the District Council of Mount Barker, is the largest town in the Adelaide Hills, and is one of the fastest growing areas in the state. Mount Barker is close enough to Adelaide that many people commute there on a daily basis, although it is far enough away from the city that people call it "the country".
Adelaide Hills Council
Adelaide Hills Council was established in 1997 by the amalgamation of four smaller district councils (East Torrens, Gumeracha, Onkaparinga and Stirling). It is in the hills east of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and extends from the South Para Reservoir in the north to the Mount Bold Reservoir in the south. Towns east of Stirling and Bridgewater, including Hahndorf, are located in the Mount Barker DC. The Adelaide Hills Council contains a total of 57 townships:
Hahndorf, South Australia
Hahndorf is a small town in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. Currently an important tourism spot, it has previously been a centre for farming and services. It is accessible from Adelaide, the South Australian capital, via the South Eastern Freeway. The town was settled by Lutheran migrants largely from in and around a small village then named Kay in Prussia, many of whom were aboard the Zebra arriving on 28 December 1838.
Balhannah, South Australia
Balhannah is a town in the Adelaide Hills about 30 km southeast of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It was established in 1839 as a farming community. The fruit cold store built in 1914 was one of the first in Australia and is still in use. It is on the main interstate railway between Adelaide and Melbourne. In the past it was the junction for a branch line that ran up the Onkaparinga Valley and beyond to Birdwood and Mount Pleasant.
District Council of Mount Barker
The District Council of Mount Barker is a local government area centred on the town of Mount Barker just outside of the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia.
Totness, South Australia
Totness is a recent addition to South Australia, and consists mainly of industrial zoned areas. It is commonly referred to as Mount Barker or Littlehampton but is actually a town of its own. There is no street sign indicating you are entering Totness. It is about 2 km from Mount Barker, and 1 km from Littlehampton, but the towns have merged due to growth. It is also home to the Totness Recreation Park.
Totness Recreation Park
Totness Recreation Park, is a public park near the town of Totness, South Australia in the central Mount Lofty Ranges. Covering 41 hectares of land, the park is divided by the South Eastern Freeway and features a large dam. It was declared as a reserve in 1970 and re-designated as a recreation park in 1972. The park has no visitor facilities except for access tracks.
Littlehampton, South Australia
Littlehampton is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. At the 2006 census, Littlehampton had a population of 2,064. Littlehampton was laid out in 1849 by Benjamin Gray who named it after his native town in Sussex. By 1890 Littlehampton had become a busy industrial area. There were factories producing bricks, jam, sauces, bacon, wattle extract, a brewery and a sawmill.
Wistow, South Australia
Wistow is a small town, just outside Mount Barker, on Wellington Road. It is a town formed around the interesction of Wellington Road (Mount Barker to Wellington) and Strathalbyn Road It is home to a delicatessan, a hall and a church. The delicatessan also has two petrol pumps available for vehicle refuelling. It has a cricket ground on the top of a hill.
Woodside, South Australia
Woodside is a town in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. The town is between Balhannah and Lobethal, 37 kilometres from the state capital, Adelaide. Amenities include a swimming pool, library, second hand store, grocery store, tennis club, bowls club and playing fields. The Johnston family of Oakbank founded Woodside in the 1850s, primarily to improve their brewery business. The town was a useful traffic hub linking Oakbank, Lobethal and Charleston.
Inverbrackie, South Australia
Inverbrackie is a locality in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. It includes the Woodside Barracks, South Australia, although there are also some other residents and businesses in Inverbrackie. It is about 3 km from Woodside. It is on the Nairne to Woodside road. The speed limit changes from 100 kilometres an hour to 80 kilometres an hour near the start of Inverbrackie.
Mount Barker (South Australia)
This article is about the geographical feature. For the nearby township, see Mount Barker, South Australia Mount Barker is a mountain just outside of the town of Mount Barker in South Australia. The mountain is the home to a transmission tower that services SAGRN and mobile phone transmissions throughout the area.
Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival
The Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival is a horse-racing meeting held over two days by the Oakbank Racing Club at the Oakbank Racecourse located in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. The carnival is a mixture of flat and jumping races with between two and four jumps races on day one and two feature jumping races on day two. Day one is held on Easter Saturday and is one of the highest attended race days in Australia.
Balhannah railway station
Balhannah railway station is a railway station on the Adelaide-Melbourne line, but is now not in use. The station is in the Adelaide Hills town of Balhannah, and is located 45.8 km by railway from Adelaide Railway Station. The station opened in April 1883, originally with three platforms, the main platform of which had a weatherboard signal cabin, ticket office and the resident engineers office, like the one at Ambleside.
Mount Barker railway station
Mount Barker railway station is a preserved railway station in South Australia on the Victor Harbor railway line, formerly operated by South Australian Railways and it successor, Australian National. With only broad gauge track running through the station, it has been disconnected from the Adelaide metropolitan network since the standardisation of the Adelaide-Melbourne line in 1995.
Mount Barker Junction railway station
Mount Barker Junction railway station is a railway station in South Australia located on the Melbourne-Adelaide railway, 50km (31mi 25ch) by rail from Adelaide Railway Station. It is west of the junction of the Victor Harbor railway line. The station consists of an abandoned station building and a 120 metre-long platform.
Nairne railway station
Nairne railway station is located in the Adelaide Hills town of Nairne, about 55km (34mi, 37ch) from Adelaide Railway Station The station closed during 1990 when the Adelaide-Mount Gambier passenger service ceased.
Callington, South Australia
Callington is a small town in the Adelaide Hills, in South Australia. Callington is situated on the Bremer River, and is adjacent to the South Eastern Freeway. Callington is located within the state electoral district of Kavel and the federal division of Mayo
Charleston, South Australia
Charleston is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. It is situated on the Onkaparinga Valley Road between Woodside and Mount Torrens, on the main route from the Adelaide Hills to the Barossa Valley. Most of the local businesses are on the Onkaparinga Valley Road, while the largest number of houses are on Newman Road. Charleston is served by a community postal agency called the Bookpost which is also a bookshop, internet cafe and General Store.
Blakiston, South Australia
Blakiston is a town in the Australian state of South Australia. The town is located approximately 36 kilometres south-east of the state capital, Adelaide, adjacent to the Princes Highway. Its postal code is 5250 - though it has no post office. Post is delivered to the neighbouring town of Littlehampton which shares the post code. The town and surrounding countryside make up around 16 square kilometres. At the 2006 census, Blakiston and the surrounding area had a population of 697.
Oakbank Racecourse
Oakbank Racecourse is home of the Oakbank Racing Club, a club which, until 2009, raced just twice annually, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday and has done continually since 1876, except during World War II when it was held at Victoria Park and Morphettville Racecourse due to the army taking over the facility.
Harrogate, South Australia
Harrogate is a small South Australian town, located in the Adelaide Hills on the banks of the Bremer River. It was founded in 1858 and is believed to be named after Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in England by John Baker. The town has a number of historic buildings, dating back to the mid-19th century, including a former Bible Christian chapel (c. 1859), and a village hall (now a community hall). A post office also operated in the town between the years 1861 to 1974.
Brukunga, South Australia
Brukunga is a small town in the Adelaide Hills, located approximately 40 km east of Adelaide and 4 km north of the town of Nairne. Its name, derived from Barrukungga in the local Aboriginal language, means 'place of fire stone' or the 'place of hidden fire', and is associated with the Kaurna ancestral being Tjilbruke. At the 2006 census, Brukunga had a population of 579.
Dawesley, South Australia
Dawesley is a settlement in South Australia.
Mount Barker High School
Mount Barker High School is a public high school located in the Adelaide Hills, 34 kilometres east of Adelaide. It was founded in 1908, celebrating its centenary in 2008.