Mount Benson

Appellation

Mount Benson is a GI region of Limestone Coast in Australia.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: GI region (Wine Australia)
Protected since: 1997-03-18
Area: 27,612 ha registered outline
Centre: 37.0337° S, 139.8229° E
State: South Australia
Legal basis: Wine Australia Act 2013; Register of Protected GIs and Other Terms.

Outline: From the Wine Australia GI register, via the adynak/WineRegions copy.

Where it is

Nearest town: 82 km west of Naracoorte
Nearest city: 259 km south of Adelaide 1,469,163 people
To the sea: 8.3 km
Same latitude: Sur (Chile)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 0–76 m
Mean elevation: 13 m
Mean slope: 1.5° (3 %)
Steepest tenth: above 4°
Faces: several directions, mostly south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 297,467 elevation cells of about 30 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

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