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Minlaton
South Australia
MinlatonWarMemorial.JPG
War memorial on Main St.
Minlaton is located in Yorke Peninsula Council
Minlaton
Minlaton
Location in Yorke Peninsula Council
Established 1876 (town)
1999 (locality)
Postcode(s) 5575
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
  • 198 km (123 mi) W of Adelaide
  • 46 km (29 mi) S of Maitland
  • 96 km (60 mi) S of Kadina
LGA(s) Yorke Peninsula Council
Region Yorke and Mid North
County Fergusson
State electorate(s) Narungga
Federal Division(s) Grey
Localities around Minlaton:
Bluff Beach Koolywurtie Curramulka
Parsons Beach Minlaton Curramulka
Ramsay
Spencer Gulf Brentwood
Yorketown
Yorketown
Footnotes Adjoining localities

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 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 and the state electoral district of Narungga.

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.

Climate data for Minlaton Aero
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

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