Thevenard (postcode 5690) is a port town 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south-west of Ceduna, South Australia. It is named after nearby Cape Thevenard, which in turn had been named after Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard, a French admiral. At the 2006 census, Thevenard had a population of 776.
The port at Thevenard, handles bulk grain, gypsum, salt and zircon. Thevenard is a terminus on the isolated Eyre Peninsula Railway network, and receives several trains daily of bulk gypsum from the Lake MacDonnell mine at Kevin near Penong.
Iluka Resources exports 300,000 tonnes of zircon product from Thevenard annually produced at the Jacinth Ambrosia Mine.
The existing jetty has two berths each capable of handling ships of 198m length overall (LOA) and 28m beam with a berthing pocket 30 metres wide and 9.8 metres deep. A gantry supports a load out conveyor and a discharge boom with a travel length of 160.5m, capable of bulk loading grain at 750 tonnes per hour and gypsum at 950 tonnes per hour, into ships holds with a maximum outreach of 18 metres.
Thevenard is in the District Council of Ceduna local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Flinders and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Grey.
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Towns and localities of the District Council of Ceduna
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| Governance |
| Federal division |
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| Local Government |
- Ceduna DC
- Cleve DC
- Elliston DC
- Franklin Harbour DC
- Kimba DC
- Lower Eyre Peninsula DC
- City of Port Augusta
- City of Port Lincoln
- Streaky Bay DC
- Tumby Bay DC
- City of Whyalla
- Wudinna DC
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| Protected areas |
- Coffin Bay National Park
- Gawler Ranges National Park
- Lake Gilles
- Lincoln National Park
- Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area
- Munyaroo Conservation Park
- Neptune Islands Conservation Park
- Pinkawillinie Conservation Park
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| Coastal features |
| West coast |
- Anxious Bay
- Calca Peninsula
- Cape Blanche
- Cape Carnot
- Cape Catastrophe
- Cape Finniss
- Cape Radstock
- Cape Wiles
- Coffin Bay Peninsula
- Jussieu Peninsula
- Point Avoid
- Point Labatt
- Point Weyland
- Point Whidbey
- Slade Point
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| East coast |
- Cape Burr
- Cape Donington
- Cape Hardy
- Lipson Cove
- Memory Cove
- Point Lowly
- Yorkey Crossing
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| Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast |
| West coast |
- Avoid Bay Islands
- Baird Bay
- Jones Island
- Unnamed island, Baird Bay
- Cap Island
- Eba Island
- Germein Island
- Grantham Island
- Greenly Island
- Investigator Group
- Liguanea Island
- Neptune Islands
- Nicolas Baudin Island
- Nuyts Archipelago
- Olive Island
- Pigface Island
- Whidbey Isles
- Williams Island
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| East coast |
- Bicker Isles
- Boston Island
- Curlew Island
- Entrance Island
- Hopkins Island
- Lewis Island
- Lipson Island
- Little Island
- Louth Island
- Owen Island
- Sir Joseph Banks Group
- Sleaford Islands
- Smith Island
- Taylor Island
- Thistle Island
- Tumby Island
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| Related and uncategorised |
- The Peninsulas zone (wine)
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Australian places named by French explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries
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| South Australia |
- Cape Bedout
- Cape Borda
- Cape Bouguer
- Cape Carnot
- Cape du Couedic
- Casuarina Islets (Ilots du Cassuarina)
- D'Estrees Bay (Baie D'Estrees)
- Dorothee Island (Ile Dorothee)
- Fleurieu Peninsula
- Cape Forbin
- Cape Gantheaume
- Guichen Bay (Baie de Guichen)
- Jussieu Peninsula
- Lacepede Bay
- Maupertuis Bay (Baie Maupertuis)
- Fenelon Island
- Masillon Island
- Ravine des Casoars
- Rivoli Bay (Baie de Rivoli)
- Cape Thevenard
- Veteran Isles (Ile du Veteran)
- Vivonne Bay (Baie Vivonne)
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| Western Australia |
- Cape Clairault
- Cape Freycinet
- Cape Mentelle
- Cape Naturaliste
- Faure Island
- Gantheaume Point
- Geographe Bay
- Lancelin Island
- Middle Island (Iles du Milieu)
- Peron Peninsula
- Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche)
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Only places with the name still in use in either the original or anglicised version are listed above. Many names have been anglicised; for these the original French name appears in brackets. |
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