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.
- Mine
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (130 feet)
- Description: mine in Australia
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Wheal Hughes
- Category: industry
- Location
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Latitude
-34.05214° or 34° 3′ 8″ south
Longitude
137.61768° or 137° 37′ 4″ east
Open location code
4QQVWJX9+43
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wheal Hughes” goes by many names.
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