Maitland, South Australia
| Maitland South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Robert St in Maitland | |||||||||||||||
  Maitland | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°22′0″S 137°40′0″E / 34.36667°S 137.66667°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,079 (UCL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1872[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5573 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 160 m (525 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | Yorke Peninsula Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[3] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Fergusson[2] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Narungga[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[2] | ||||||||||||||
Maitland (/ˈmeɪtlənd/) is a town on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. By road, it is 168 km (104 mi) west of Adelaide, 164 km (102 mi) south of Port Pirie and 46 km (29 mi) north of Minlaton. The town lies in the traditional lands of the Narungga, whose name for the district is Maggiwarda.
History
[edit]The town was established on the Yorke Peninsula, the traditional lands of the Narungga, an Aboriginal Australian people, who had lived there for thousands of years. Their name for the peninsula is Guuranda, and the Maitland district was Maggiwarda.[5][6]
The town was named in 1872 after Lady Jean Maitland[7] (died 1766), the wife of the 2nd Lord of Kilkerran, Sir James Fergusson (1688-1759) and great-great grandmother of the governor of South Australia at that time, Sir James Fergusson (1832–1907).[8]
In October 1884 the Adelaide Observer noted:
Maitland in situated about twenty-three miles from Moonta, on Yorke's Peninsula, and is about equidistant between the two Gulfs. The town stands about 490 feet above the sea, and is surrounded by some of the richest soil on the Peninsula. The township is only about nine years old, and has made steady progress, and bids fair to be the next largest town to Moonta on the Peninsula.[9]
Agriculture was developed on lands formerly used as hunting grounds for the Narungga people, and they were employed in agricultural work from where they were moved to at Point Pearce (Burgiyana) mission.[5]
Location and description
[edit]Maitland is within a short driving distance of coastal towns on either side, with Port Victoria to the west and Ardrossan to the east, each within 25 km.[citation needed] It has a grain receiving depot operated by AWB Limited, serviced only by road.[10]
Climate
[edit]Maitland has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa), with very warm, dry summers and mild, wetter winters. Temperatures vary throughout the year, with average maxima ranging from 29.3 °C (84.7 °F) in January to 14.3 °C (57.7 °F) in July, and average minima fluctuating between 15.9 °C (60.6 °F) in February and 7.0 °C (44.6 °F) in July. Annual precipitation is moderately low, averaging 502.5 mm (19.78 in), with a maximum in winter. There are 109.8 precipitation days, 95.8 clear days and 133.4 cloudy days annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 46.3 °C (115.3 °F) on 24 January 2019 to 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) on 29 June 1958 and 9 July 1959.[11]
| Climate data for Maitland (34º22'12"S, 137º40'12"E, 185 m AMSL) (1879-2024 normals, extremes 1957-2024) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 46.3 (115.3) |
43.5 (110.3) |
40.1 (104.2) |
37.0 (98.6) |
29.0 (84.2) |
25.0 (77.0) |
21.8 (71.2) |
28.0 (82.4) |
33.8 (92.8) |
37.9 (100.2) |
42.4 (108.3) |
46.0 (114.8) |
46.3 (115.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.3 (84.7) |
28.5 (83.3) |
25.9 (78.6) |
22.4 (72.3) |
18.2 (64.8) |
15.5 (59.9) |
14.3 (57.7) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.6 (70.9) |
24.9 (76.8) |
26.4 (79.5) |
21.7 (71.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.8 (60.4) |
15.9 (60.6) |
14.5 (58.1) |
12.6 (54.7) |
10.0 (50.0) |
7.9 (46.2) |
7.0 (44.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
8.5 (47.3) |
10.1 (50.2) |
12.3 (54.1) |
13.8 (56.8) |
11.3 (52.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 7.7 (45.9) |
8.9 (48.0) |
7.2 (45.0) |
4.4 (39.9) |
4.0 (39.2) |
0.0 (32.0) |
0.0 (32.0) |
1.1 (34.0) |
1.1 (34.0) |
1.8 (35.2) |
4.4 (39.9) |
6.5 (43.7) |
0.0 (32.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 18.0 (0.71) |
21.9 (0.86) |
20.6 (0.81) |
42.3 (1.67) |
62.4 (2.46) |
68.1 (2.68) |
65.3 (2.57) |
61.5 (2.42) |
49.1 (1.93) |
41.1 (1.62) |
28.4 (1.12) |
23.9 (0.94) |
502.5 (19.78) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 8.3 | 12.1 | 14.2 | 15.3 | 14.6 | 11.7 | 9.7 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 109.8 |
| Average afternoon relative humidity (%) | 35 | 39 | 42 | 48 | 59 | 64 | 66 | 62 | 56 | 46 | 40 | 39 | 50 |
| Average dew point °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) |
10.4 (50.7) |
9.6 (49.3) |
8.5 (47.3) |
8.1 (46.6) |
7.3 (45.1) |
6.7 (44.1) |
6.5 (43.7) |
6.9 (44.4) |
6.6 (43.9) |
7.1 (44.8) |
8.3 (46.9) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Source: Bureau of Meteorology (1879-2024 normals, extremes 1957-2024)[12] | |||||||||||||
Media
[edit]Maitland was home to a newspaper called the Maitland Watch (22 December 1911 – 26 June 1969). In 1969, the newspaper merged with Yorketown's the Pioneer (1898–1969) to become the short-lived Yorke Peninsula News Pictorial (3 July 1969 – 28 May 1970), which was then incorporated into the Yorke Peninsula Country Times from June 1970.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Maitland (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ a b c "Search result(s) for Maitland (LOCB) (Record No. SA0042104) with the following layers being selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "Counties", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ "Yorke and Mid North SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ a b Liebelt, Belinda; Roberts, Amy; O'Loughlin, Clem; Milera, Doug (6 December 2016). "'We had to be off by sundown': Narungga contributions to farming industries on Yorke Peninsula (Guuranda), South Australia". Aboriginal History. 40. ANU Press. doi:10.22459/ah.40.2016.04. ISSN 0314-8769. PDF
- ^ "Figure 1: Yorke Peninsula (Guuranda) and relevant placenames". ResearchGate. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "Jean Maitland, only child b. 7 Dec 1703 d. 29 Mar 1766: MacFarlane Clan & Families Genealogy".
- ^ "Sir James Fergusson [Ferguson], of Kilkerran, 6th Baronet b. 18 Mar 1832 d. 14 Jan 1907 Jamaica, West Indies: MacFarlane Clan & Families Genealogy".
- ^ "MAITLAND". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XLI, no. 2246. South Australia. 18 October 1884. p. 13. Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Maitland GrainFlow Centre". AWB Limited. Retrieved 15 October 2006.
- ^ "Maitland Climate (1879-2024)". FarmOnline Weather. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ "Maitland Climate Statistics (1879-2024)". Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
- ^ Laube, Anthony. "LibGuides: SA Newspapers: M-N". guides.slsa.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
External links
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- Harvest Corner Website Yorke Peninsula Visitor Information Centre at Minlaton
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