McBean Pound, South Australia

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date= April 2018}}

{{Infobox Australian place

|type=suburb

| name = McBean Pound

| state = SA

| image =

| caption =

| pop =

| established = 27 March 2003

| established_footnotes ={{cite web|last1=Weatherill|first1=J.|title=GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places (in the Mid Murray Council)|url=http://governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/public/documents/gazette/2003/March/2003_027.pdf|website=the South Australian Government Gazette|publisher=South Australian Government|access-date=2 April 2018|page=1184|date=27 March 2003}}

| postcode = 5357

| elevation =

| elevation_footnotes =

| timezone = ACST

| utc = +9:30

| timezone-dst = ACST

| utc-dst = +10:30

| dist1 = 118

| dir1 = north-east

| location1 = Adelaide

| dist2 = 76

| dir2 = north-east

| location2= Mannum

| dist3 = 28

| dir3 = south

| location3= Morgan

| lga = Mid Murray Council

|county = Eyre

|region = Murray and Mallee

| stategov = Chaffey{{cite web|title=Electoral district of Chaffey |url= https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/component/edocman/electoral-district-of-chaffey-pdf/download |publisher=Electoral Commission SA|access-date=27 March 2018}}

| fedgov = Barker{{cite web|title=Electoral division of Barker |url= http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/sa/files/2011/2011-aec-a4-map-sa-barker.pdf |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=27 March 2018}}

| maxtemp = 21.1

| maxtemp_footnotes = {{cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics Summary statistics EUDUNDA (nearest weather station) |url= http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_024511.shtml|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology|access-date=2 April 2018 }}

| mintemp = 9.3

| mintemp_footnotes =

| rainfall = 448.6

| rainfall_footnotes =

| coordinates= {{coord| 34.28525 |S| 139.629388 |E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coord_ref ={{cite web|title=Search result for ‘McBean Pound, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Local Government areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Counties', 'Electorates State 2018', 'Electorates Federal 2016', and ‘Gazetteer’ |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=hybrid&x=139.65429&y=-34.28396&z=14&uids=19,2,208,225,11,20,105&pinx=139.637130&piny=-34.281190&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Mcbean+Pound,+Flat |access-date=5 April 2018 }}

| near-n = Blanchetown
Murbko

| near-ne = Murbko

| near-e = Murbko

| near-se = Murbko

| near-s = Blanchetown
Murbko

| near-sw = Blanchetown

| near-w = Blanchetown

| near-nw = Blanchetown

| near = McBean Pound

| footnotes = Locations
Adjoining localities

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McBean Pound is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Riverland in the state’s east on the western side of the Murray River about {{convert|118|km}} north-east of the state capital of Adelaide about {{convert|76|km}} north-east of the municipal seat of Mannum.

The locality consists of a river flat known as McBean Pound which included a lagoon called McBean Pond, high ground to the west which is bounded by Boy Scout Road and the portion of the river east of the middle of its channel. The Roonka Conservation Park adjoins the locality’s south boundary.

Its boundaries were created on 27 March 2003 for the “long established name” of McBean Pound. In 1927, Rodney Cockburn, the journalist, described it as "bounded by the stream on one side and on the other by a high cliff, a perfectly natural pound is formed. It was used only for grazing purposes, and at times was subject to inundation."{{cite book | last = Cockburn | first = Rodney | author-link = Rodney Cockburn| title = Pastoral pioneers of South Australia, reprinted from "The Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" | publisher = Publishers Limited | volume = 2 | date = 1927 | location = Adelaide | page = 82}}

The name is reported by the South Australian historian, Geoffrey Manning as being derived from the brothers, Lachlan and Alexander McBean, who held an “occupation license” for the ‘Roonka Roonka’ station which was located on the western side of the Murray River. Both Cockburn and Manning report that during the 1850s, McBean Pound was “one of the first sites” considered for a railway crossing over the river.{{Cite web |url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/digitalpubs/placenamesofsouthaustralia/M.pdf |work=Manning Index of South Australian History |title= McBean Pound |first=Geoffrey |last=Manning |author-link=Geoffrey Manning |publisher=State Library of South Australia |access-date=3 April 2018}}

Land use within McBean Pound consists of residential accommodation, land intended for tourism and recreation use, and land controlled by conservation and floodplain management policy. The residential accommodation whose historical use is for “‘holiday’ occupancy” and which is known as a shack site in Australia occupies the eastern side of the river flat and the northern end of the cliff line.{{cite web |title=Development Plan - Mid Murray Council Consolidated – 14 June 2017 |url= http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/249988/Mid_Murray_Council_Development_Plan.pdf |publisher=South Australian Government |access-date=2 April 2018 |pages=96–97, 100–101, 164–165, 195 and 512.}}

McBean Pound is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Chaffey and the local government area of the Mid Murray Council.