Sandilands, South Australia
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| Sandilands South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Sandilands | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°30′51″S 137°46′49″E / 34.514119°S 137.780312°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 85 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1999[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5571[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Yorke Peninsula Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Fergusson[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Narungga[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Sandilands is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Gulf St Vincent about 88 kilometres (55 mi) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the municipal seat in Maitland.[4][1][8]
Its boundaries which were created in May 1999 for the “long established name.”[1][3] The locality's name is derived from Robert Hamilton Sandilands (1841-1923) who lived there during the 1880s.[9][10]
As of 2014, the majority land use within the locality is “primary production.”[8]
Sandilands is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.[6][5][1]
