Mangalo, South Australia
| Mangalo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Mangalo | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°32′S 136°37′E / 33.53°S 136.62°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 56 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5602 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Cleve | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | [2] | ||||||||||||||
Mangalo is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It has a Memorial Hall, CFS and bulk grain silos but has never had a railway line to service them. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for sand.[2]
Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,[3] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[4] In 1920, one of the reasons not to proceed with building this railway was that it would be redundant to a railway linking Murat Bay to Cowell.[5] However this railway was never built either.
The locality of Mangalo comprises the Hundred of Mangalo and Hundred of Heggaton. It includes the Heggaton Conservation Park.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mangalo (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Placename Details: Mangalo". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 1 July 2014. SA0042416. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ Kielpa to Mangalo Hall Railway Act 1916 No. 1265, Government Printer, 24 June 2011, retrieved 30 June 2017
- ^ "Kielpa-Mangalo Railway Vetoed". Eyre's Peninsula Tribune. Vol. XIV, no. 882. South Australia. 29 August 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "KIELPA-MANGALO RAILWAY CHALLENGED". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXVII, no. 5, 835. South Australia. 20 November 1920. p. 28. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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