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Foul Bay
South Australia
Foul Bay is located in South Australia
Foul Bay
Foul Bay
Location in South Australia
Population 41 (2016 census)
Established 1999
Postcode(s) 5577
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location 130 km (81 mi) west of Adelaide
LGA(s) Yorke Peninsula Council
Region Yorke and Mid North
County Fergusson
State electorate(s) Narungga
Federal Division(s) Grey
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
23.1 °C
74 °F
15 °C
59 °F
432.8 mm
17 in
Localities around Foul Bay:
Warooka Warooka Warooka
Marion Bay Foul Bay Warooka
Investigator Strait
Footnotes Distances
Coordinates
Climate
Adjoining localities

Foul Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Investigator Strait about 130 kilometres (81 miles) west of the state capital of Adelaide.

It was formally established in May 1999, with its name deriving from the Foul Bay Shack Site on South Coast Road. It also incorporates the pre-existing "Old Wheel Inn Shack Site" and the "Point Davenport Shack Site". A government town named Nugent was surveyed at the end of Nugent Road, near the Point Davenport site, in July 1880; however, it was never developed and was declared to have ceased to exist on 11 June 1925. In 2012, a portion of Foul Bay was added to Warooka.

As of 2014, the majority land use within the locality was “primary production.”

The 2016 census reported that Foul Bay had a population of 41 people.

Foul Bay is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.

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