Coonamia, South Australia
| Coonamia Port Pirie, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Coonamia | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°11′31″S 138°02′35″E / 33.192°S 138.043°ECoordinates: 33°11′31″S 138°02′35″E / 33.192°S 138.043°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5540 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Port Pirie Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Frome | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Coonamia is a locality to the east of Port Pirie in the Mid North region of South Australia. It is on the plains between Port Pirie and the Southern Flinders Ranges.
The Coonamia railway station is the Port Pirie station used by trains between Adelaide or Sydney and Perth or Darwin. Coonamia is crossed from west to east by both the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line and Warnertown Road which connects Port Pirie to the Augusta Highway and thence to Adelaide. The railway was originally built in 1875 to service the port at Port Pirie.
Coonamia is named for the railway station, which is reputed to have been named in 1929 for an Aboriginal word for cold.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Placename Details: Coonamia (with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities")". Property Location Browser gazetteer. Government of South Australia, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. 16 September 2013. SA0013998. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
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