Moonta School Of Mines-National Trust

Moonta School Of Mines-National Trust is a museum in Copper Coast, South Australia which is located on Ellen Street. Moonta School Of Mines-National Trust is situated nearby to the art gallery Fine Aboriginal Art, as well as near Moonta Town Hall.

Opening hours: Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday 1:00 PM—4:00 PM
Type: Museum
Address: Ellen Street, Moonta, 5558

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 760 metres southwest of Moonta School Of Mines-National Trust.

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 3 km northeast of Moonta School Of Mines-National Trust.

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 School Of Mines-National Trust.

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 School Of Mines-National Trust

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-34.06888° or 34° 4′ 8″ south

Longitude

137.58986° or 137° 35′ 24″ east

Operator

National Trust

Open location code

4QQVWHJQ+CW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2158528689

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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