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Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 26,878 as of 2021.The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Victorian border.
The Boandik (or Bungandidj) people occupied the area before the colonisation of South Australia. [2]Centenary Tower (2013) When Stephen Henty of Portland happened upon the dormant Mount Gambier volcano in 1839, the Valley Lake and the Blue Lake were considered a good source of water for future settlers in the new colony of South Australia.
Local government area in South Australia City of Mount Gambier South Australia Location of the City of Mount Gambier in blue Population 26,276 (2016 census) • Density 85.31/km 2 (221.0/sq mi) Established 1876 Area 308 km 2 (118.9 sq mi) Mayor Lynette Martin Council seat Mount Gambier Region Limestone Coast State electorate(s) Mount Gambier Federal division(s) Barker Website City of Mount ...
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The facility includes light refreshments, visitor servicing, an accessway into the cave system including viewing platforms at the lakes in both passages, toilets and range of open spaces with varying degrees of shelter for picnics and associated activities. The City of Mount Gambier also offers guided tours of the dry sections of both cave ...
Little Blue Lake is a water-filled sinkhole (“cenote”) in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east in the locality of Mount Schank about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the municipal seat of Mount Gambier. It is notable locally as a swimming hole and nationally as a cave diving site.
Blue Lake / Warwar (The Blue Lake) is a large, monomictic, crater lake located in a dormant volcanic maar associated with the Mount Gambier maar complex.The lake is situated near Mount Gambier in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, and is one of four volcanic crater lakes originally on Mount Gambier maar.
The Limestone Coast is a South Australian Government Region which consists of land within the following local government areas located in the south east of the state: the City of Mount Gambier and the District Councils of Grant, Kingston, Robe, Tatiara and Naracoorte Lucindale and the Wattle Range Council, and the extent of "coastal waters" up to three nautical miles seaward of the low water ...