Type: | town |
Gulnare | |
State: | sa |
Postcode: | 5471 |
Elevation: | 283 |
Dist1: | 188 |
Dir1: | north |
Location1: | Adelaide |
Dist2: | 24 |
Dir2: | south |
Location2: | Gladstone |
Dist3: | 57 |
Dir3: | SE |
Location3: | Port Pirie |
Lga: | Northern Areas Council |
Stategov: | Frome |
Fedgov: | Grey |
Coordinates: | -33.4673°N 138.4422°W |
Near-N: | Georgetown |
Near-Ne: | Washpool |
Near-E: | Spalding |
Near-Se: | Broughton River Valley |
Near-S: | Yacka |
Near-Sw: | Koolunga |
Near-W: | Narridy |
Gulnare is a settlement in South Australia.[1] At the 2006 census, Gulnare had a population of 95. It is where the east–west Goyder Highway crosses the former Hamley Bridge-Gladstone railway line,[2] and about a kilometre east of the south–north Horrocks Highway, north of Adelaide. The railway was built as a narrow gauge in 1894 and converted to broad gauge in 1927. The railway had been closed by 1993.
The town of Gulnare was named for the Gulnare Plain.[3] The plain was named by either John Horrocks or William Light.[4] The name of Gulnare in Byron's Turkish Tales and the name of Colonel Light's ship Gulnare are both derived from an English spelling of Julnar the Sea-born in older English translations of the Arabian Nights.