Moonta
Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, 165 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,630 residents
- Description: town in South Australia
- Also known as: “Moonta, South Australia” and “Moonta, South Australia, Australia”
- Neighbors: Port Hughes
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
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Hughes and Moonta Bay.
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.
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
- Category: locality
- Location: Copper Coast, Yorke Peninsula and Clare Valley, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-34.0675° or 34° 4′ 3″ southLongitude
137.5894° or 137° 35′ 22″ eastPopulation
4,630Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
4QQVWHJQ+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 33119331OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2065843Wikidata ID
Q3323606
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