Southern Highlands

Appellation

Southern Highlands is a GI region of South 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)
Within: South Coast
Protected since: 2002-03-25
Area: 268,738 ha registered outline
Centre: 34.4908° S, 150.3670° E
State: New South Wales
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: 5.1 km west of Bowral
Nearest city: 49 km west of Wollongong 280,153 people
To the sea: 40 km
Same latitude: Metropolitana (Uruguay), Mendoza (Argentina), Walker Bay (South Africa), Valle de Colchagua (Chile)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 56–906 m
Mean elevation: 597 m

Measured over the whole outline on 170,341 elevation cells of about 126 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wineries · 5

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