Minlaton, South Australia
Town in South Australia
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Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. It is known as the "Barley capital of the world", due to the rich Barley production in the region.
Minlaton | |||||||||||||
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War memorial on Main St. | |||||||||||||
  Minlaton | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°46′21″S 137°35′39″E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Location | |||||||||||||
| Established | 1876 (town) 1999 (locality)[1][2] | ||||||||||||
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| • Federal division | |||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 759 (UCL 2021)[5] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5575 | ||||||||||||
| County | Fergusson[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Adjoining localities[1] | |||||||||||||
Minlaton was the hometown of Harry Butler, a World War I flying ace. His Bristol M1C monoplane has been restored and is preserved in pride of place in a building the centre of the town. When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton in 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere.
Minlaton is in the District Council of Yorke Peninsula, the federal Division of Grey[6] and the state electoral district of Narungga.[3]
Climate
Minlaton, like most of the Yorke Peninsula, has a dry mediterranean climate bordering on semi-arid. Annual rainfall is around 360 millimetres or 14 inches, most of which falls in the winter months.[citation needed]
| Climate data for Minlaton Aero | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 45.6 (114.1) |
44.1 (111.4) |
41.0 (105.8) |
37.4 (99.3) |
30.9 (87.6) |
25.9 (78.6) |
23.0 (73.4) |
29.3 (84.7) |
33.0 (91.4) |
38.7 (101.7) |
44.3 (111.7) |
45.9 (114.6) |
45.6 (114.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.6 (85.3) |
28.6 (83.5) |
26.7 (80.1) |
23.4 (74.1) |
19.5 (67.1) |
16.3 (61.3) |
15.3 (59.5) |
16.4 (61.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
22.6 (72.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
27.6 (81.7) |
22.6 (72.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
15.3 (59.5) |
14.1 (57.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
7.8 (46.0) |
7.0 (44.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
7.9 (46.2) |
9.3 (48.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
13.5 (56.3) |
10.9 (51.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) |
8.0 (46.4) |
6.0 (42.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
3.0 (37.4) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
0.5 (32.9) |
0.2 (32.4) |
0.8 (33.4) |
2.1 (35.8) |
3.7 (38.7) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 14.5 (0.57) |
18.1 (0.71) |
16.1 (0.63) |
24.5 (0.96) |
39.5 (1.56) |
52.5 (2.07) |
50.0 (1.97) |
46.1 (1.81) |
35.4 (1.39) |
22.8 (0.90) |
21.8 (0.86) |
19.6 (0.77) |
360.3 (14.19) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 4.6 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 8.6 | 13.1 | 17.6 | 18.5 | 18.6 | 14.6 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 126.3 |
| Average afternoon relative humidity (%) | 36 | 39 | 40 | 47 | 49 | 67 | 70 | 63 | 58 | 47 | 39 | 39 | 50 |
| Source: [7] | |||||||||||||
Gallery
Harry Butler's Red Devil is on display in Minlaton
Harry Butler memorial
Main street
St Benedict's Anglican church, built in 1886
