Mangalo, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Mangalo
State:sa
Postcode:5602
Dist1:15
Dir1:northeast
Location1:Cleve
Dist2:40
Dir2:northwest
Location2:Cowell
Dist3:159
Dir3:northeast
Location3:Port Lincoln
Lga:District Council of Cleve
Stategov:Flinders
Fedgov:Grey
Coordinates:-33.53°N 136.62°W
Near-N:Kelly
Near-Ne:Yalanda
Near-E:Miltalie
Near-Se:Cowell
Near-Sw:Cleve
Near-W:Jamieson, Campoona
Near-Nw:Waddikee
Footnotes:[1]

Mangalo is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It has a Memorial Hall, CFS and bulk grain silos but has never had a railway line to service them. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for sand.[1]

Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916, however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[2] In 1920, one of the reasons not to proceed with building this railway was that it would be redundant to a railway linking Murat Bay to Cowell.[3] However this railway was never built either.

The locality of Mangalo comprises the Hundred of Mangalo and Hundred of Heggaton. It includes the Heggaton Conservation Park.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Placename Details: Mangalo . 30 June 2017 . Property Location Browser Report . Government of South Australia . SA0042416 . 1 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dead .
  2. News: Kielpa-Mangalo Railway Vetoed. . . XIV . 882 . South Australia . 29 August 1929 . 30 June 2017 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: KIELPA-MANGALO RAILWAY CHALLENGED. . . LXXVII . 5,835 . South Australia . 20 November 1920 . 30 June 2017 . 28 . National Library of Australia.