Kooloonong, Victoria

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Kooloonong
Victoria
Kooloonong is located in Rural City of Swan Hill
Kooloonong
Kooloonong
Coordinates34°52′S 143°08′E / 34.867°S 143.133°E / -34.867; 143.133Coordinates: 34°52′S 143°08′E / 34.867°S 143.133°E / -34.867; 143.133
Postcode(s)3549
Location
  • 413 km (257 mi) from Melbourne
  • 147 km (91 mi) from Mildura
  • 98 km (61 mi) from Ouyen
  • 264 km (164 mi) from Bendigo[1]
LGA(s)Rural City of Swan Hill
Federal division(s)Mallee
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, Victoria 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 , 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.[2]

The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[3] 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.[4] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[3] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973.[5] It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922[6]

Yungera[]

In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[7] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[8] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[9] to 1937.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine[dead link]
  2. ^ Macfarlane, Neil (18 June 2015). "Submission to VEAC State Wide Assessment of Public Land" (PDF). Mid-Murray Field Naturalists Inc. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Kooloonong". Vicsig. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. ^ "No Water at Kooloonong". The Argus. 27 March 1923. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  5. ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 26 March 2021
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Yungera". Victorian Railway Stations. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  8. ^ Sid Brown (March 1990). "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 71–76.
  9. ^ "APPOINTMENT OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 20 June 1929. p. 1452. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
  10. ^ "ABOLITION OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 21 January 1937. p. 77. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.


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