Moonta

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.

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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.