Type: | town |
Moonyoonooka | |
State: | wa |
Lga: | City of Greater Geraldton |
Local Map: | yes |
Zoom: | 10 |
Coordinates: | -28.7822°N 114.7222°W |
Postcode: | 6532 |
Stategov: | Geraldton |
Fedgov: | Durack |
Moonyoonooka is a rural locality on the eastern margin of Geraldton, in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It contains Geraldton Airport. At the 2016 census, Moonyoonooka had a population of 245. Of employed people, 22.4% worked in the vegetable horticulture industry. Notably 9.1% of residents speak Vietnamese at home, eight times the national average.
Moonyoonooka is the site of Glengarry Homestead, the birthplace of Edith Cowan, the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament.[1]