Little Douglas, South Australia

Little Douglas South Australia
Little Douglas
Coordinates	34°31′46″S 135°23′08″E[1]
Population	8 (SAL 2021)[2]
Established	15 October 2009[1]
Postcode(s)	5607[1]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	295 km (183 mi) west of Adelaide 42 km (26 mi) south-west of Cummins
LGA(s)	District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula[1]
Region	Eyre Western[1]
County	Flinders[1]
State electorate(s)	Flinders[3]
Federal division(s)	Grey[4]
Mean max temp[5] Mean min temp[5] Annual rainfall[5] 21.3 °C 70 °F 11.4 °C 53 °F 394.6 mm 15.5 in
Suburbs around Little Douglas: Coffin Bay (body of water) Farm Beach Coulta Coulta Coffin Bay (body of water) Little Douglas Mount Dutton Bay Coffin Bay (body of water) Coffin Bay (body of water) Coffin Bay (body of water) Coffin Bay (body of water)
Footnotes	Locations[1] Adjoining localities[1]

Little Douglas (previously Horse Peninsula) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the state’s west overlooking the body of water known as Coffin Bay about 293 kilometres (182 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 42 kilometres (26 mi) south-west of the municipal seat of Cummins.^[1]

Its boundaries were created on 16 October 2003 for the "long established name" of Horse Peninsula and which included the former Little Douglas Shack Site. On 15 October 2009, it was renamed as Little Douglas after the former shack site after a request from the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula to use "the well established local name of Little Douglas.”^[1][6][7]

Little Douglas occupies most of the Horse Peninsula, a peninsula which extends in a north-south direction within the Coffin Bay body of water dividing it into halves.^[1][8]

The locality contains a settlement consisting of permanent dwellings located on the south side of a tidal lagoon known as Little Douglas Bay.^[1][9] Its coastline south of Little Douglas Bay includes an unpatrolled swimming beach which is considered by the Surf Life Saving Australia to be ‘least hazardous’.^[10]

Land use within the locality consists of a ‘coastal conservation’ zone occupying most of the Horse Peninsula, an area in its centre zoned for ‘coastal settlement’ which has a desired character which encourages development involving low-rise detached dwellings, and land to the east of the settlement is zoned for ‘aquaculture’ for the provision of “land-based facilities for marine-based aquaculture farms” located within Coffin Bay.^[1][11]

Little Douglas is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.^[4][1][3]

References

1. "Search result for Little Douglas, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Local Government areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Counties', 'Postcode', 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Land Development Plan Zone Categories' and 'Gazetteer'". Retrieved 25 December 2017.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Little Douglas (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
3. "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
4. "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
5. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Summary statistics North Shields (Port Lincoln AWS) (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
6. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Boundaries and Names to Places" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette: 3796, 16 October 2003, retrieved 24 December 2017
7. "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991, Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 15 October 2009. p. 4847. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
8. Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 175: North, West, and South Coasts of Australia (PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2017. p. 180.
9. "Search result for Little Douglas Bay, Bay' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Retrieved 31 December 2017.
10. "Little Douglas SA". Beachsafe. Surf Life Saving Australia. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
11. "Development Plan - Lower Eyre Peninsula (DC) Consolidated – 28 February 2017" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 107, 119, 131, 248, 262–265 and 326–327. Retrieved 25 December 2017.