Moonta Post Office
Moonta Post Office is a post office in Copper Coast, South Australia. Moonta Post Office is situated nearby to the suburb Moonta Bay.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Moonta Cemetery and Wheal Hughes.
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 1 km southwest of Moonta Post Office.
Wheal Hughes
Museum
Photo: Fairv8, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Wheal Hughes is situated 2½ km northeast of Moonta Post Office.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moonta and Moonta Bay.
Moonta
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Davidcronk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 3 km northwest of Moonta Post Office.
Port Hughes
Photo: Davidcronk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Moonta Post Office
- Type: Post office
- Location: Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.06737° or 34° 4′ 3″ southLongitude
137.59235° or 137° 35′ 33″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Operator
Australia PostOpen location code
4QQVWHMR+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 13505354092OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=post_officeGeoNames ID
8849920
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