Mount Hope, South Australia

Mount Hope
South Australia
Mount Hope
Coordinates 34°06′32″S 135°21′14″E / 34.109°S 135.354°E / -34.109; 135.354Coordinates: 34°06′32″S 135°21′14″E / 34.109°S 135.354°E / -34.109; 135.354
Postcode(s) 5607
Elevation 52 m (171 ft)
LGA(s) District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
Region Eyre Western[1]
County Musgrave[1]
State electorate(s) Electoral district of Flinders
Federal Division(s) Division of Grey
Localities around Mount Hope:
Kiana Mitchell
Great Australian Bight Mount Hope Kapinnie
Mount Drummond Cummins

Mount Hope is a small town on the Flinders Highway on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was the terminus of a branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Yeelanna from 1914 until but the line was closed and dismantled in 1966.[2] The town was surveyed in 1916, and proposed to be named Mount Woakwine, but no action was taken to call it that.[3]

Mount Hope was part of the traditional territory of the Nauo. It was first traversed by Europeans when Edward John Eyre passed that way in 1839.[4] The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974.[4] In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Search results for "Mount Hope LOCB" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Counties'". Location SA Map viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Kapinnie and Mount Hope Railway Discontinuance Act, 1966, No. 11, Government Printer, 2011-05-24, retrieved 13 August 2015
  3. ↑ "Placename Details: Mount Hope". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. 12 May 2011. SA0055828. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Place Names of South Australia - H". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "GENERAL NEWS". The Advertiser. Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 22 May 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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