Mount Gambier is the second most populous city in South Australia with an estimated urban population of 28,684. The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier (volcano) in the southeastern state, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of the capital Adelaide and only 17 kilometers (11 mi) from the Victoria border, it is the most important settlement in the Limestone Coast area and central government both for the City of Mount Gambier and District Council of Grant.
The peak of an inactive volcano is the first place in South Australia to be named by European explorers. It was spotted in 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant of the survey brig, HMS Lady Nelson , and named for Lord James Gambier, Fleet Admiral. The peak is marked by the Centenary Tower, built in 1901 to commemorate the first sighting, and at an altitude of 192 m (630 ft) above sea level, this landmark is the city's highest point.
The city is famous for its geographical features, especially features of its volcanoes and chalk, especially Blue Lake, gardens and gardens, caves and exhaust pits.
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History
Prior to the European settlement, the Buandig (or Boandic) people were aboriginal indigenes in the area. They call it 'ereng balam' or 'egree yet', which means 'eagle eagle'.
The peak of the inactive Mount Gambier crater was seen in 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant from survey brig, HMS Lady Nelson, and named after Lord James Gambier, Fleet Admiral.
The Henty brothers who owned large holdings in Portland, West Victoria, claimed the land but were forced to retreat when the land was given to Evelyn Sturt, brother of the explorer Charles Sturt. Industry soon began to emerge. The Post Office opened on September 22, 1846, John Byng built Mount Gambier Hotel in 1847, and Dr. Edward Wehl arrived in 1849 to start a flour milling operation.
Hastings Cunningham founded "Gambierton" in 1854 by dividing the 77 acre block (31 ha). From 1861 to 1878 the Post Office was known by this name before returning to Mount Gambier. The local government emerged in 1863 when Dr Wehl, who now owns a large milling house on Commercial Street, was elected chairman of the Mount Gambier District Council. In December 1864, this became the West Gambier District District Council and, at the same time, formed a separate East Gambier District Board.
The establishment in 1876 sees a further division, with the formation of the City Council and Mr John Watson elected Mayor. Mount Gambier was ruled in this way until 1932, when the Eastern and Western District Council merged to form a Mount Gambier District Council once more.
On December 9, 1954, Mount Gambier was officially declared a city, and is now an important tourism hub in southeastern Southeast Australia.
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Geography
The urban area of ​​Mount Gambier lies mainly along the northern slopes and the volcano maar plains of the same name, Mount Gambier. Consisting of several craters, it is part of Newer Volcanics volcano complex. One of them contains a large lake of high quality artesian water that changes color with the seasons. In winter, it is a steel gray and then turns into spectacular cobalt blue in summer, giving rise to the name, Blue Lake. This 70-meter (230 feet) deep lake also houses a myriad of unusual aquatic flora and fauna, especially in the area of ​​large stromatolites. There are several other craters in the city including the Lake Valley and Mutton Lake Feet. The area around the city also includes other volcanic features like Mount Schank, along with many karst features such as water-filled caves and sewerholes.
The urban area stretches outside the City of Mount Gambier to the District of Grant Council where the following suburbs now exist: Suttontown, Mil Lel and Worrolong north of town, Glenburnie to the east, Compton to the west, and Moorak and OB Flat to the south.
Climate
Mount Gambier has a warm summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen: Csb ). The city has dry summers and wet winters. July is the wettest month with an average of 100.2 mm falling on 22 days while February usually records the lowest rainfall with an average of 26 mm at an average of 8 days. The highest temperature ever recorded on Mount Gambier was 44.9 Â ° C on February 2, 2014 and the lowest temperature ever recorded was -3.9 Â ° C on June 20, 1950 and 2 July 1960. Mount Gambier has 40.5 days that bright every year.
Demographics
The government in the southeastern region of the country, consisting of three local councils, amounted to a single administration. Therefore, many of Victoria's residents used to look across the border to Mount Gambier as their center. As a result, during the 1970s many elderly residents moved to Victor Harbor and Moonta, both rural areas but with more resources available to cope with an aging population. A 1976 study found that less than 10 percent (about 160 people) of the population aged over 65 years had lived in the area for less than 5 years, leading to a lack of certain age-care facilities.
According to the 2006 Census, the census population of Mount Gambier is 24,905 people, making it the largest urban area in the state outside Adelaide, and the 50th largest urban area in Australia. About 51.7% of the population is female, 84.9% are Australian-born, more than 91.5% of the population are Australian citizens and 1.6% are indigenous.
The most popular industries for jobs are Log Sawmilling and Timber Dressing (8%), School Education (4.8%) and Retail Trade (3.8%), while the unemployment rate is around. 7%. The average weekly household income is A $ 814 or more per week, compared to $ 924 in Adelaide.
According to the 2006 Census, 60.0% of the population identified themselves as Christians. The biggest denominations represented were Catholics at 21.5%, Anglican at 11.4%, Uniting Church at 8.6%, and Presbyterian at 6.9%. 26.9% of people claim not to be religious. Furthermore, 12.1% of people choose not to express their beliefs, or do not define them adequately.
Economy
The economy of Mount Gambier is driven by all three sectors of the economy, although it has emerged as a regional service economy with its core industry being the service industry and its core business areas including tourism, hospitality, retailing, professional services, government administration and education. The historic primary industrial roots of municipalities including mining, agriculture and forestry continue to play a key role as well as being a major road transport and truck center.
Tourism
Mount Gambier is the main service center for the tourism area known as The Limestone Coast. This is a progressive community, visitors enjoy the services and amenities of the city. With many natural attractions, including volcanic craters, lakes, limestone caves, sinkholes and underground aquifers, it is surrounded by a thriving city with a variety of accommodation, shopping and entertainment opportunities. Tourism generates about $ 100 million for Mount Gambier's economy. This city is the main gateway for this region. Major attractions include the Blue Lake and Lake Lembah wildlife parks and caves like Umpherston Sinkhole, Cave Gardens and Engelbrecht Cave. Engelbrechts Cave is a popular cave dive site. The area around Mount Gambier also has many caves containing water and drain holes that attract cave divers from all over the world.
Service industry
As a major service center for the region, the city has several major retail districts including CBD Commercial Street. Mount Gambier Marketplace, opened in August 2012, is one of two major shopping centers in the city, the other being Mount Gambier Central (formerly known as Centro Mount Gambier). The major stores include Target, Big W, Kmart, and Harvey Norman. In addition, each large supermarket (Coles, Woolworths, IGA) is represented. The financial services sector is a branch of four Australian retail banks (National Australia Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac) along with Bendigo Bank and St.George Bank and a number of smaller independent financial services firms.
Education
There are six Reception Primary Schools to Year 7 (R-7):
- Reidy Park Primary School;
- McDonald Park;
- Compton Elementary School;
- Melaleuca Park;
- Mulga Street Primary School; and
- Mount Gambier North High School.
There are two colleges of Admissions to Year 12 (R-12):
- Tenison Woods College and
- St Martins Lutheran College.
There are two high schools for Grades 8 through 12:
- Mount Gambier High School and
- Grant High School.
Post-secondary education is offered by the following providers:
- TAFE South Australia has a campus in Mount Gambier that provides a wide range of vocational studies.
- The University of South Australia has a state-of-the-art modern campus in Mount Gambier that offers full-time or part-time degrees in Education, Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work with possible courses in Foundation Studies and Aboriginal Pathways courses offered.
- Flinders University also operates Flinders Rural Health SA on Mount Gambier Hospital grounds.
Media
Newspapers
The local newspaper for Mount Gambier, Limestone Beach and South East South Australia is The Border Watch . It is published and available in the local area every Tuesday to Friday (with the exception of several public holidays such as Christmas Day). The daily newspapers of Melbourne (Herald Sun's and The Age ) and Adelaide ( The Advertiser ) and national newspapers such as The Australian and The Australian Financial Review are also available in Mount Gambier and the southeastern region of SA. Several newspapers from nearby cities such as Millicent and Penola, special newspapers such as the English weekly newspaper International Express , agricultural newspapers such as The Weekly Times from Victoria and < i> The South Australia Stock Journal (published by Rural Press) and The Independent Weekly from Adelaide is also available from local newsagents.
Historically, the city is served by several newspapers. Two previous papers, two weekly Mount Gambier Standard (3 May 1866 - 1874), and South Eastern Star October 2, 1877 - October 13, 1930), taken over by The Border Watch . Other, free commercial paper, The exchange (1902 - October 8, 1942) ran contrary to Watch , and was published by Clark family. However, it stopped when the Second World War caused paper restrictions and decreased advertising.
Television
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) - ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 (digital channel)
- Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) - SBS One, SBS Two (digital channel)
- WIN Television (7, 9 & amp; 10) when SES-8 - SES-8 relays the program from Seven Network (Seven SA), Nine Network (WIN SA) & amp; Ten Networks (Ten SA).
- Foxtel - Foxtel's Subscription Television service is also available via satellite.
WINS TV broadcast Nine programming Network, Channel Seven broadcast Seven programming Network & amp; Channel Ten broadcast Network Ten programming. The programming schedule for this channel is the same as the Nine Channels, Channels Seven and Ten Channels in Adelaide, with local ads inserted and some variations for Australian Football League coverage or National Rugby League matches, national and national news and current programs, some lifestyle and light entertainment and infomercial show. In February 2013, there was no local news program for the Mount Gambier area since the close of WIN Television's news operations.
On Friday 11 November 2011, WIN Television started the ONE, multi-channel ONE, Eleven, GO!, GEM (Acronym of Public Entertainment and Movie), 7Dua (acronyms from "72") and 7mate transmission for Mount Gambier and the Southeast region at South Australia.
As it is close to the border of the state of Victoria/South Australia, most people in Mount Gambier and some nearby areas in southeastern South Australia can receive television services from Western Victoria. These channels are broadcast from Mount Dundas transmitter near the town of Cavendish, Victoria. The transmitter site is located about 100 kilometers northeast of Mount Gambier and broadcasts all television channels from Western Victoria including Prime7 Television (AMV), WIN Television Victoria (VTV), Southern Cross Ten (BCV), ABC and SBS Victorian services, as well as multi-channel digital free-to-air which is also now available from Mount Burr transmitter, northwest of Mount Gambier.
Radio
- ABC
- ABC South East SA (1476 AM)
- ABC Triple J (102.5 FM)
- National Radio ABC (103.3 FM)
- ABC Classic FM (104.1 FM)
- ABC NewsRadio (105.7 FM)
- Commercial
- TAB Radio
- Beach Triple M Limestone (963 AM)
- Hit96.1 (96.1 FM)
- 5GTR FM (100,1 FM)
- LIME FM (104.9 FM) (Formerly Rhema FM)
Some ABC radio services are also acceptable from nearby Naracoorte town and from Western Victoria.
Art and culture
The Civic City Center, in the vicinity of Cave Gardens, is a city art center and includes the Riddoch Art Gallery, South Australia's premier regional art gallery located in an adaptive old town hall complex. Also has the James Morrison University of South Australia Academy. The complex was extended in 2011 to include "The Main Corner", a modern building that includes a theater. Nearby is an old public library and post office.
Music
Each year the city and the surrounding area, hosted nearly 7,000 middle school musicians for Generations in the Jazz Festival. Jazz artists such as James Morrison, Ross Irwin, and Graeme Lyall traveled to perform and break the stage band competition. Special guests include Gordon Goodwin and Big Phat Band, Whycliffe Gordon, and more recently (2017) Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Sports
There are four Australian football teams that compete in the Western Border League: North Gambier, East Gambier, South Gambier, and West Gambier. They have produced AFL players such as David Marshall, Nick Daffy and Matthew Clarke.
There are also a variety of different sports and club leagues in Mount Gambier and the surrounding area, including soccer, ball nets, basketball, tennis, hockey, cricket, swimming, cycling, triathlon, shotguns, gun shots and pistols, grass bowls, ten pins bowling, fishing, archery and golf.
Motor sport is also popular, with main facilities are the road racing circuit McNamara Park, and Borderline Speedway, 372 meters (407Ã, Â ± yd) track dirt oval speedway dubbed "The Bullring". Borderline Speedway hosts an annual Sprintcar event called "Kings Challenge", first held in 1995 and held in January every year a week before the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in Warrnambool (Victoria), and two weeks before the Australian Sprintcar Championship. Borderline has hosted many Australian and South Australian racing championships for over 50 years of history and is considered one of the best run and promoted in Australia. Speedway is currently managed and promoted by former sprintcar star driver, native to Mount Gambier, Bill Barrows. In 2007, Borderline hosted the fifth and final round of the Australian National Championships. Rounds and championships were won by Australian World Champion Jason Crump.
Mount Gambier is home to "The Alex Roberts 100 Mile Classic", a cycling event that reads the longest open cycling event in South Australia. Events are held annually by Mount Gambier Cycling Club.
Mount Gambier Gifts
The 120m Mount Gambier Gift is held annually on the first Saturday in December at Vansittart Oval is the 2nd richest professional footrace in South Australia. Resurrected in 2001 athletic carnivals include races from 70m to 1600m and attract athletes from across Australia, mostly from South Australia and Victoria. Of the eleven athletic car mounts of Mount Gambier held to date, three Victorians have won 120 m Rewards. On December 3, 2011, Wallace Long-Scafidi, 21, won the Prize for the second year in a row. The race has not been held since 2012, and to this day continues unabated.
Pieder Gambier Mount
There is only one side of the national sport which is the Pioneer of Mount Gambier. The Pioneers entered the South East Basketball League in 1988 and currently play in SEABL (South East Australian Basketball League). Pioneers play at the Icehouse (Mount Gambier Basketball Stadium) which houses more than 900 people and is also home to the Gambier Mountain Basket Association. Pioneers already have four ABA/SEABL championships in 2003, 2014, 2015 and 2017. The 2003 side ranked second in the top five teams who have played in the league by a special group of voters in 2012 to mark the 25th anniversary celebration. The Pioneers have been the sixth winner of the Southern Conference at SEABL, which took place in 2003, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. The pioneers are also two runners-ups from the Southern Conference that took place in 1997 and 2000.
In 2017 current President Neale Boase, Chief Coach Richard Hill and Club Captain Matt Sutton will lead the team into the 30th season at SEABL, with former NBL player Brad Hill and US imports.
The Mount Gambier Pioneers celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2013. This anniversary weekend also includes a 10-year re-union of the 2003 championship team and the main game before the men play, including two teams of Pioneers players from 25 years of existence. The Pioneers also registered their 25 best players of all time during this weekend. The number one pioneer of all time will be the 2003 Championship player and former importer of Jamie 'X-Factor' Holmes.
In 2015, The Mount Gambier Pioneers officially started their status status fame for those of the club. The Hall of Fame is divided into two categories; Member of Players and General Members. There is a list of criteria to be made by these people. There are currently 6 Hall of Fame members: Bill Hately (2015) Tony Cook (2015) Jason Joynes (2015) Soyna Knight (2015) Jason Sedlock (2015) Jamie Holmes (2015)
Famous people
- Kasey Chambers (born there in 1976)
- George Crennan, Director of the Federal Catholic Immigration Office in Australia from 1949 to 1995
- Gavin Wanganeen (AFL Footballer) (born there in 1973)
- Elizabeth Grant, (born there in 1963 and lived there until 1980).
- Dave Graney (born there in 1959 and living there until 1978)
- Mark Yeates (AFL Footballer) (born there in 1960)
- Robert Helpmann (Sir) (1909-1986)
- Steve Lines, Sprintcar Driver
- David Marshall (Australian Footballer with Adelaide Crows in AFL, Glenelg at SANFL, North Gambier at WBFL)
- Tony Pasin
- Allan Scott, (1923-2008, businessman)
- James Stein, an overlander and pastoralist pioneer, died and was buried there in 1877.
- John Tremelling, Olympian.
- Josip Skoko, Socceroo - 51 Caps.
- William Paltridge, a politician.
Government
Chamber Council at the Civic Center at 10 Watson Terrace, Mount Gambier is the seat of local government for the City of Mount Gambier. The Council was formed in 1932 when the District Board of Mount Gambier West and the District Board of Mount Gambier Timur joined the Mount Gambier District Council which later proclaimed a city on December 9, 1954. The city consisted of a mayor and ten councilors, elected evenly from the East ward and the West every four years through postal voting. In May 2017, the board of Mayor of Mount Gambier was Andrew Lee. The territory of the local government lies entirely within the Council of Council and because of the growth of the city there has been talk of merging, the last border changes that occurred in 2010.
Law and order for the Limestone Coast area is managed through the Mount Gambier Police Complex at 42 Bay Road Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier Magistrates Court at 41 Bay Road Mount Gambier and Mount Gambier Prison in the southern town of Moorak.
In country politics, Mount Gambier is located in the South Australian Upper Electoral District in Mount Gambier, which has been held since 2014 by former Liberal Troy Bell party member, re-elected as independent in 2018 state elections.
In federal politics, Mount Gambier is located in the division of the House of Representative of Barker Australia, which has been represented by Tony Pasin since 2013. It is a safe seat of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Infrastructure
Health
The city has a major regional hospital, Mount Gambier Hospital operating in Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service. In addition there are a number of private health services including Mount Gambier Private Hospital.
Utilities
The city's main watershed is the Blue Lake, a volcanic lake that is the main tourist attraction and reservoir of the city. Water supply, waste collection and disposal are provided by the Southeast catchment Water Management Board.
Transportation
Mount Gambier is located on a number of highways that connect the city with other major cities in the region, as well as to Adelaide and Melbourne.
- Princes Highway (Jubilee Highway) travels through the city from east to west.
- to Melbourne via Dartmoor, Portland, and Warrnambool
- to Adelaide via Millicent, Kingston S.E. and Meningie
- Riddoch Highway (Penola/Bay Road) travels through the city north to south.
- to Adelaide via Naracoorte and Keith
- to Port Macdonnell
Prior to the conversion of the Adelaide-Wolseley railway line to a standard gauge in 1995, Mount Gambier connected to Adelaide on a wide gauge network via Naracoorte, Bordertown and Tailem Bend. Normal commercial passenger service to Adelaide ceased in December 1990, while limited freight services operated until the channel was disconnected from the national network.
Mount Gambier Airport is located a few kilometers north of the city via Riddoch Highway. The city is only served by Regional Express, which flies Saab 340 planes to Adelaide and Melbourne several times a day. Premier Stateliner operates a coach service to Mount Gambier from Adelaide. V/Line operates the daily interstate trainer service from Mount Gambier to Warrnambool, connecting with rail services to Melbourne. The Visitor Center (The Lady Nelson) is the agent for the sale of general passenger service tickets, and services using the car park to come and depart.
References
External links
- Mount Gambier travel guide from Wikivoyage
- The City of Mount Gambier
- Gambier Mountain Tour
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