Kooloonong Explained

Type:town
Kooloonong
State:vic
Use Lga Map:yes
Coordinates:-34.8667°N 151°W
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pop:39[1]
Postcode:3549
Dist1:413
Location1:Melbourne
Dist2:147
Location2:Mildura
Dist3:98
Location3:Ouyen
Dist4:264
Location4:Bendigo[2]
Lga:Rural City of Swan Hill
Fedgov:Mallee
Near-N:Boundary Bend
Near-Ne:Narrung
Near-E:Kenley
Near-Se:Natya
Near-S:Natya
Near-Sw:Bolton
Near-W:Wandown, Annuello
Near-Nw:Lake Powell

Kooloonong is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 147 km from Mildura and was on the Yungera railway line.

Kooloonong was established as a soldier settlement area for returned servicemen from World War I. By the mid-1920s, it was a thriving township with a bush nursing hospital, government offices, a school, an RSL hall, a railway station and sporting facilities. The town has declined since then and now has only one occupied house, plus the rarely-used hall, a CFA shed and unused grain handling facilities.[3]

The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[4] to support the soldier settlement farms in the area. For many years, water was carted to the location by train because there was no natural water supply.[5] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[4] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973. It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922.[6]

Yungera

In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[7] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[8] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[9] to 1937.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2016 Kooloonong, Census All persons QuickStats Australian Bureau of Statistics . 2022-05-25 . abs.gov.au.
  2. http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate
  3. Web site: Submission to VEAC State Wide Assessment of Public Land . Neil . Macfarlane . 18 June 2015 . Mid-Murray Field Naturalists Inc. . 1 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Kooloonong. Vicsig. 2016-03-15.
  5. News: No Water at Kooloonong. 2016-03-15. The Argus. 1923-03-27.
  6. News: APPOINTMENT OF ELECTORAL REGISTRARS AND POLLING PLACES CONSEQUENT ON PROCLAMATION OF DIVISIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1922. . . Australia . 5 October 1922 . 20 January 2020 . 1733 . Trove .
  7. Web site: Yungera . Victorian Railway Stations . 12 March 2012 . 1 January 2017.
  8. March 1990 . Tracks Across the State . Sid Brown . Newsrail . Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) . 71–76 .
  9. News: APPOINTMENT OF POLLING PLACES. . . Australia . 20 June 1929 . 20 January 2020 . 1452 . Trove .
  10. News: ABOLITION OF POLLING PLACES. . . Australia . 21 January 1937 . 20 January 2020 . 77 . Trove .