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Price is a locality and township on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006 )〕 It is within the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area and is north west of the centre of state capital, Adelaide. At the , Price and the surrounding district had a population of 256. ==History and Development== The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882, is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham. It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877-83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son. She was a daughter of Henry Strong Price, a pioneer pastoralist of the Flinders Ranges. 〔 http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/p/p8.htm#price〕 The principal local industries are grain farming and salt production. In the case of the latter, sea salt is harvested from coastal salt pans. Tourism facilities are limited to the Wheatsheaf Hotel, established 1886, and a caravan park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Price, South Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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