Wheal Hughes
Wheal Hughes was a copper mine in the 19th century, but is now a tourist attraction at Cross Roads, near Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. The mine is named after Walter Watson Hughes a Scottish sea captain who had emigrated to South Australia in 1840 and purchased land in the vicinity of Moonta for keeping sheep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Moonta Cemetery.
Moonta Cemetery
Cemetery
The Moonta Cemetery in Moonta, South Australia was established under the Moonta Cemetery Trust in May 1866. Burials had occurred prior to that, with the town having been surveyed and land sold in March 1863. Moonta Cemetery is situated 4 km southwest of Wheal Hughes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moonta and Moonta Bay.
Moonta
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Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, 166 km north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. It is one of three towns known as the Copper Coast or "Little Cornwall" for their shared copper mining history.
Moonta Bay
Suburb
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Moonta Bay is located in the Copper Coast region of Northern Yorke Peninsula South Australia, adjacent to the historic town of Moonta and Port Hughes. Moonta Bay is situated 5 km west of Wheal Hughes.
Port Hughes
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Port Hughes is a coastal town of 600 people on the western side of Yorke Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination, and the towns of Moonta Bay and Moonta are nearby.
Wheal Hughes
- Type: Mine
- Description: mine in Australia
- Category: industry
- Location: Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wheal Hughes” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wheal Hughes”
- French: “Wheal Hughes”
- Swedish: “Wheal Hughes”
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