Border Village

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| name = Border Village

| city = Nullarbor

| state = sa

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Border Village is a settlement located in South Australia within the locality of Nullarbor on the Eyre Highway at the border with Western Australia.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/south-australia/border-village/2005/02/17/1108500204178.html|title=Border Village|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=2004-02-08|accessdate=2 January 2013}}

The settlement, which is {{Convert|12|km|abbr=on}} east of Eucla, was named in 1993 by the South Australian Geographical Names Advisory Committee following a suggestion provided by the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia.{{cite web|title=Search result for " Nullarbor (LOCU)" (Record no SA0008549)|url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/#|publisher=Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure|access-date=22 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/|archive-date=12 October 2016}} The settlement is located about {{convert|5|km}} north of the cliff line separating the Nullarbor Plain from the Great Australian Bight.{{cite web | url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/ | title=Search result(s) for "Border Village, LOCA" with the following data sets being selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "NPW and Conservation Reserve Boundaries", and "SA Government Regions" | publisher=Government of South Australia | work=Location SA Map Viewer | accessdate=27 April 2017}}

As of 2004, the settlement offered services to travellers and visitors to Nullarbor including:

Motel, cabin and caravan accommodation, a restaurant which opens from 6:00am - 10:00pm, a takeaway service which is open from 6:00am - 11:00pm, full garage service and a desalination plant which provides fresh water.

There is a Western Australian agricultural checkpoint at Border Village, and also "Hole 6: Border Kangaroo" of the Nullarbor Links golf course.{{cite web|title=Hole 6: Border Kangaroo|url=http://www.kalgoorlie.com/nullarborlinks/hole06.asp|work=Nullarbor Links|publisher=Eyre Highway Operators Association|accessdate=2 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412221024/http://www.kalgoorlie.com/nullarborlinks/hole06.asp|archive-date=12 April 2013|url-status=dead}}

The settlement is one of five that uses the Central Western Standard Time (UTC+08:45).{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2012–2013|url=http://www.dundas.wa.gov.au/Assets/Documents/Document-Centre/Annual-Reports/Annual_Report_2012-2013.pdf|website=Shire of Dundas|publisher=Shire of Dundas (WA)|pages=7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304074421/http://www.dundas.wa.gov.au/Assets/Documents/Document-Centre/Annual-Reports/Annual_Report_2012-2013.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=3 September 2017}}: "Two time zones operate, there being a ¾ hour difference by changing the clock at Caiguna, about halfway along the Eyre Highway."{{cite news|title=The Government and iPhones don't recognise it, but this stretch of desert has its own time zone|author=Christien de Garis|date=2019-04-08|publisher=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-08/this-remote-stretch-of-desert-has-its-own-custom-time-zone/10981000}}

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