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Salt Creek
South Australia

Oil drill monument

Salt Creek

Location in South Australia

Population

29 (2016 census)

Established

24 August 2000

Postcode(s)

5264

Time zone

ACST (UTC+9:30)

• Summer (DST)

ACST (UTC+10:30)

Location

164 km (102 mi) SE of Adelaide
86 km (53 mi) north-west of Kingston SE
58 km (36 mi) south-east of Meningie

LGA(s)

The Coorong District Council

Region

Murray and Mallee

County

Cardwell

State electorate(s)

MacKillop

Federal Division(s)

Barker

Mean max temp	Mean min temp	Annual rainfall
20.8 °C ^{69 °F}	10.3 °C ^{51 °F}	469.2 mm ^{18.5 in}

Localities around Salt Creek:
Coorong	Coorong	Colebatch
Coorong	Salt Creek	Deepwater
Coorong	Tilley Swamp	Tilley Swamp

Footnotes

Adjoining localities

Salt Creek is a small settlement in South Australia, located along the Coorong, and is also the location of the Coorong National Park Information Centre.

Oil rig monument

In 1892, a group of entrepreneurs, who believed there was oil located in the Coorong, drilled Australia's first oil well. They were unsuccessful, as it was later discovered that the 'oil' was in fact a flammable, compacted vegetable substance (known as 'coorongite'). A replica of the oil rig has been built as a monument to this enterprise. References in literature The novel "Salt Creek" by Lucy Treloar is set in the Coorong at Salt Creek in the 1850s and 1860s, and includes references to the "Travellers' Rest" Inn, and to William & Catherine Robinson, the proprietors, and to Malachi Martin, and the murder/s committed by Martin.

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