Kooloonong
- 413 km (257 mi) from Melbourne
- 147 km (91 mi) from Mildura
- 98 km (61 mi) from Ouyen
- 264 km (164 mi) from Bendigo[2]
Localities around Kooloonong: | ||
Lake Powell | Boundary Bend | Narrung |
Wandown, Annuello | Kooloonong | Kenley |
Bolton | Natya | Natya |
Kooloonong is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 147 km from Mildura and was on the Yungera railway line.
Kooloonong was established as a soldier settlement area for returned servicemen from World War I. By the mid-1920s, it was a thriving township with a bush nursing hospital, government offices, a school, an RSL hall, a railway station and sporting facilities. The town has declined since then and now has only one occupied house, plus the rarely-used hall, a CFA shed and unused grain handling facilities.[3]
The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[4] to support the soldier settlement farms in the area. For many years, water was carted to the location by train because there was no natural water supply.[5] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[4] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973.[6] It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922.[7]
Yungera
In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[8] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[9] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[10] to 1937.[11]
References
- ^ "2016 Kooloonong, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". abs.gov.au. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
- ^ Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine[dead link]
- ^ Macfarlane, Neil (18 June 2015). "Submission to VEAC State Wide Assessment of Public Land" (PDF). Mid-Murray Field Naturalists Inc. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ a b "Kooloonong". Vicsig. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ "No Water at Kooloonong". The Argus. 27 March 1923. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 26 March 2021
- ^ "APPOINTMENT OF ELECTORAL REGISTRARS AND POLLING PLACES CONSEQUENT ON PROCLAMATION OF DIVISIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1922". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 5 October 1922. p. 1733. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "Yungera". Victorian Railway Stations. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ Sid Brown (March 1990). "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 71–76.
- ^ "APPOINTMENT OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 20 June 1929. p. 1452. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "ABOLITION OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 21 January 1937. p. 77. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
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- Annuello
- Bannerton
- Beauchamp^
- Bolton
- Boundary Bend
- Bulga
- Castle Donnington
- Chillingollah
- Chinangin
- Chinkapook
- Cocamba
- Fish Point
- Gerahmin
- Goschen
- Gowanford
- Happy Valley
- Kenley
- Kooloonong
- Kunat
- Lake Powell
- Liparoo
- Meatian^
- Miralie
- Murnungin
- Murrawee
- Murraydale
- Narrung
- Natya
- Nowie
- Nyrraby
- Pental Island
- Pira
- Polisbet
- Speewa
- Swan Hill West
- Tol Tol
- Towan
- Tresco
- Tresco West
- Turoar
- Tyntynder
- Tyrrell^
- Ultima
- Ultima East
- Vinifera
- Waitchie
- Wandown
- Wemen
- Winlaton
- Winnambool
- Wood Wood
- Woorinen North