Wheal Hughes
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.
- Museum
- …is also known as “Moonta Wheal Hughes Copper Mine”
- …is operated by the National Trust
- Description: mine in Australia
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Moonta Bay
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4½ km west of Wheal Hughes
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Wheal Hughes
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Latitude
-34.05378° or 34° 3′ 14″ south
Longitude
137.61486° or 137° 36′ 54″ east
Open location code
4QQVWJW7+FW
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OpenStreetMap feature
tourism = museum
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wheal Hughes” goes by many names.
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