Myponga, South Australia

Myponga is a settlement in South Australia. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 744, of whom 393 lived in its town centre.[3][2] Myponga is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson, and the local government area of the District Council of Yankalilla.[8][7][1]

For other uses, see Myponga.

Myponga
South Australia
Anglican church
Myponga
Coordinates35°24′20″S 138°28′11″E[1]
Population
Established1858 (sub-division)
5 August 1999 (locality)[1]
Postcode(s)5202[4]
Elevation216 m (709 ft)(weather station)[5]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Yankalilla[1]
RegionFleurieu and Kangaroo Island[6]
CountyHindmarsh[1]
State electorate(s)Mawson[7]
Federal Division(s)Mayo[8]
Mean max temp[5] Mean min temp[5] Annual rainfall[5]
19.4 °C
67 °F		 7.5 °C
46 °F		 756.3 mm
29.8 in
Localities around Myponga:
Sellicks Hill
Myponga Beach		 Sellicks Hill Pages Flat
Myponga Beach
Wattle Flat		 Myponga Mount Compass
Hindmarsh Tiers
Inman Valley
Wattle Flat
Inman Valley		 Inman Valley Inman Valley
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

History

Before British colonisation of South Australia, the Kaurna people occupied the land from the Adelaide plains and southwards down western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, including Myponga. The Kaurna name for the area was Maitpungga.[9] Geoff Manning reports that "according to H.C. Talbot it is derived from the Aboriginal word miappunga - 'divorced wife'", and Norman Tindale concluded that it probably meant "vegetable food place, from [mai] and [pangkara], a term applied to swamps & lagoons". However linguist Rob Amery of the University of Adelaide and Kaurna educator Jack Buckskin concluded that it was just a name and does not have a literal translation.[10]

One of the first pioneer families to settle the area, was the family of Con Polden and Mary Windsor (c.1840) along with their children from Wiltshire in South West England. Myponga began as a settlement as a series of land purchases on section 521 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Myponga in 1858. In 1939, a sub-division was laid out on part of Section 521. Boundaries for the locality were created on 5 August 1999 for the "long established name."[1]

On 31 January 1971, Myponga was home to the Myponga Open Air Festival, where Daddy Cool and Black Sabbath played. It was Black Sabbath's first live performance in Australia. The reported attendance was 15,000 people.[11]

Weather station

Myponga has been the site of an official weather station since 1914.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Search results for 'Myponga, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Local Government Areas", "SA Government Regions" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Myponga (L)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  3. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "State Suburb of Myponga". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. "Postcode for Myponga, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. "Summary (climate) statistics Myponga (nearest weather station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  6. "Fleurieu Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  7. Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  8. "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  9. Amery, Rob (2016). Warraparna Kaurna!: Reclaiming an Australian language (PDF). University of Adelaide Press. pp. 4, 204. doi:10.20851/kaurna. ISBN 978-1-925261-25-7. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  10. Amery, Rob; Buckskin, Vincent (Jack) Kanya (March 2009). "Chapter 10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database". In Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia. ANU Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1921536571.
  11. "Paranoid Tour – Black Sabbath Online". Black Sabbath Online. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  12. "Myponga, automatic weather station". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 1 October 2019.


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