Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about 648 kilometres (403 miles) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 103 kilometres (64 miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna.
Boundaries for the locality including the town were created on 23 October 2003 with some additional “unincorporated land” being added on 26 April 2013.
[10][1] The locality of Bookabie consists of land associated with a section of coastline overlooking the Great Australian Bight including the eastern side of Fowlers Bay including the bay’s eastern headland.
[11] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that the localities of Bookabie and Penong shared a population of 289 people.
[2][1] Bookabie is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia.