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The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League .
Yorke Valley Football League 1910 1993 In recess 1916-18 (World War I), 1937-45 (World War II), merged with Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association to form Yorke Peninsula Football League: Northern Yorke Peninsula Football Association (1910–24) Northern and Mid Yorke Peninsula Football Association (1925–29)
[7] [8] Today the descendants of these people still live on Yorke Peninsula, supported by the Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association in Maitland, and in the community at Point Pearce. It was named "Yorke's Peninsula" [ 9 ] by Captain Matthew Flinders , after Charles Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke), narrowly beating French navigator ...
The Pioneer was a weekly newspaper published in Yorketown, South Australia from March 1898 until June 1969, when it absorbed the Maitland Watch and was renamed to Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, the Clarion (7 June 1902 - 21 May 1931), existed in the town too.
In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, The Pioneer, later becoming part of the Yorke Peninsula Country Times from June 1970. For thirty years an opposition newspaper, The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Clarion (1 February – 31 May 1902), simplified to the Clarion (7 June 1902 – 21 May 1931), also existed in ...
The Yorke Peninsula Field Days is a biennial, three-day field days event, held on a permanent site outside Paskeville on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. The event has a major focus on agriculture. [3] The event is the oldest field days event in Australia [4] and one of the biggest, [5] exhibiting millions of dollars' worth of farm machinery. [6]
The town is located in the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area, 194 kilometres (121 mi) north-west of the state capital, Adelaide. It is known for the mission established for Aboriginal people in the late nineteenth century. The location was originally known as Bookooyanna by the local Narungga people, later spelt Bukkiyana or Burgiyana.
Yorke Peninsula Country Times is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. [1] It was formed by the merging of Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times and South Australian Farmer, [ 2 ] representing numerous former publications dating back to 1865.