Mount Hope, South Australia
| Mount Hope South Australia | |||||||||||||
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  Mount Hope | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°06′32″S 135°21′14″E / 34.109°S 135.354°ECoordinates: 34°06′32″S 135°21′14″E / 34.109°S 135.354°E | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5607 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft) | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Electoral district of Flinders | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Division of Grey | ||||||||||||
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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.[1] The town was surveyed in 1916, and proposed to be named Mount Woakwine, but no action was taken to call it that.[2]
Mount Hope was discovered by Edward John Eyre in 1839.[3] The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974.[3] In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.[4]
References
- ↑ Kapinnie and Mount Hope Railway Discontinuance Act, 1966, No. 11, Government Printer, 2011-05-24, retrieved 13 August 2015
- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 "Place Names of South Australia - H". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ↑ "GENERAL NEWS.". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 22 May 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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