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.- Type: Town with 4,630 residents
- Description: town in South Australia
- Also known as: “Moonta, South Australia”, “Moonta, South Australia, Australia”, and “蒙塔”
- Neighbors: Port Hughes
Places of Interest
Highlights: Moonta Cemetery and Wheal Hughes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Hughes and Moonta Bay.
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″ south
Longitude
137.5894° or 137° 35′ 22″ east
Population
4,630
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
4QQVWHJQ+XQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Moonta” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Moonta”
- Basque: “Moonta (Hegoaldeko Australia)”
- Basque: “Moonta”
- Cebuano: “Moonta”
- Chinese: “門他”
- Dutch: “Moonta, South Australia”
- French: “Moonta”
- Japanese: “ムーンタ”
- Persian: “مونتا، استرالیای جنوبی”
- Persian: “مونتا”
- Polish: “Moonta”
- Portuguese: “Moonta”
- Russian: “Мунта”
- Swedish: “Moonta”
- Turkish: “Moonta”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hamley and Cunliffe.
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