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Mount Benson

Local Government Area
Robe
Postcode
5275
Population
130 (2021 census)
Area
314.56 km²
Coordinates
-37.0977, 139.9014
Data
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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About Mount Benson

Mount Benson is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast overlooking Guichen Bay which is part of the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is about 269 kilometres (167 miles) south-east of the Adelaide city centre and 112 kilometres (70 miles) north-west of the centre of Mount Gambier. Boundaries were created on 28 January 1999 for the "long established name" whose ultimate source is a stockman named Benson who was employed by the pastoralist, Charles Bonney, and whose name was given to the hill called Mount Benson by Charles Bonney according to one source while another source indicates that the hill was named by George Grey, the then Governor of South Australia.

Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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