Hamley
Hamley is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Yorke Peninsula on the southern side of the urban area associated with Moonta about 130 kilometres north-west of the Adelaide city centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 30 residents
- Description: locality in South Australia
- Also known as: “Hamley, South Australia” and “Hamley, South Australia, Australia”
Places of Interest
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.
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 3½ km northeast of Hamley.
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 4½ km northwest of Hamley.
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.
Hamley
- Category: locality
- Location: Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-34.08174° or 34° 4′ 54″ southLongitude
137.59939° or 137° 35′ 58″ eastPopulation
30Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)Open location code
4QQVWH9X+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 4439826933OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
11746639Wikidata ID
Q28183408
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