Queen Square

Queen Square is a park in South Australia, Australia. Queen Square is situated near the art gallery Moonta Town Hall, as well as near the fire station Moonta Metropolitan Fire Service.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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 1 km south of Queen Square.

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 Queen Square.

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 2½ km northwest of Queen Square.

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.

Queen Square

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-34.06675° or 34° 4′ 0″ south

Longitude

137.58879° or 137° 35′ 20″ east

Open location code

4QQVWHMQ+7G

OpenStreetMap ID

way 265907783

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Moonta Town Hall and Moonta Metropolitan Fire Service.

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