Mount Hope, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Mount Hope
State:sa
Coordinates:-34.1106°N 135.353°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Established:30 Nov 1916 (town)
Established Footnotes:[2]
Postcode:5607[3]
Elevation:52
Elevation Footnotes:[4]
Timezone:ACST
Utc:+9:30
Timezone-Dst:ACST
Utc-Dst:+10:30
Location1:Adelaide
Dist1:310
Dir1:W
Dist2:80
Dir2:W
Lga:District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
County:Flinders
Musgrave
Stategov:Flinders[5]
Fedgov:Grey[6]
Near-N:Kiana
Near-Ne:Mitchell
Near-E:Mitchell
Kapinnie
Near-Se:Kapinnie
Near-S:Mount Drummond
Near-Sw:Great Australian Bight
Near-W:Great Australian Bight
Near-Nw:Great Australian Bight
Footnotes:Adjoining localities

Mount Hope is a small town on the Flinders Highway on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was the terminus of a branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Yeelanna from 1914 until but the line was closed and dismantled in 1966. The town was surveyed in 1916, and proposed to be named Mount Woakwine, but no action was taken to call it that.[1]

Mount Hope was part of the traditional territory of the Nauo. It was first traversed by Europeans when Edward John Eyre passed that way in 1839.[7] The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974.[7] In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.[8]

Mount Hope is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.[6] [1] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search results for 'Mount Hope, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties’, 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. 24 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Styles . A.W. . Alfred William Styles. TOWN OF MOUNT HOPE. . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 24 May 2020 . 1045 . 30 Nov 1916.
  3. Web site: Postcode for Mount Hope, South Australia . postcodes-australia.com . 25 May 2020.
  4. Web site: Search results for 'Mount Hope Railway Station' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Government Towns' and 'Gazetteer' . Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. 25 May 2020.
  5. Web site: District of Flinders Background Profile . Electoral Commission SA. 31 July 2019.
  6. Web site: Federal electoral division of Grey . Australian Electoral Commission. 31 July 2019.
  7. Web site: Place Names of South Australia - H . The Manning Index of South Australian History . State Library of South Australia . 13 August 2015.
  8. News: GENERAL NEWS. . . Adelaide, SA . 22 May 1912 . 13 August 2015 . 8 . National Library of Australia.