Port Giles, South Australia
Place in South Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Port Giles is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh.[1]
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2014) |
| Port Giles Coobowie, South Australia | |
|---|---|
 Grain silos at Port Giles | |
  Port Giles | |
| Coordinates | 35°01′23″S 137°45′34″E[1] |
| Established | 28 May 1970[2] |
| Location | 3 km (2 mi) south of Town of Wool Bay |
Port Giles a port facility consisting of a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain which is operated by Flinders Ports,[3] and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by Viterra. It was opened by the then Premier of South Australia, Steele Hall in 1970, and led to the closure of many of the smaller ports on the peninsula. Port Giles can handle Panamax size ships or larger.[4]
Port Giles was purposely built to be able to handle bulk grain, and load it onto larger modern ships. Many of the other ports were not deep enough for larger ships, and could only be serviced by small ketches and coastal steamships. They only handled grain in bags, not in bulk.
The port is occasionally open for keen anglers to catch fish from the jetty, which provides habitat for multiple species.
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
