Chinkapook
Victoria
Public hall
Chinkapook is located in Rural City of Swan Hill
Chinkapook
Chinkapook
Coordinates35°11′S 142°57′E / 35.183°S 142.950°E / -35.183; 142.950
Population17 (2021 census)[1]
Postcode(s)3546
Location
LGA(s)Rural City of Swan Hill
Federal division(s)Mallee
Localities around Chinkapook:
Cocamba Cocamba Manangatang
Gerahmin Chinkapook Turoar
Lake Tyrrell Tyrrell Downs Chillingollah

Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill. It is on the Robinvale railway line, 70 km south of the terminus at Robinvale.

The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.[3]

Many of Australian poet John Shaw Neilson's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook.[4] Douglas Stewart's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Chinkapook (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. ↑ Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Phoenix AuctionsHistory, Post Office List, retrieved 27 March 2021
  4. ↑ Nancy Keesing (1978). "Introduction to The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson" (PDF). The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson. National Library of Australia. p. 22. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  5. ↑ Pierce, Peter (28 May 2011). "Tidy poetry of the parochial". The Australian. News Corporation. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  6. ↑ "The Mice of Chinkapook". Australian Poetry Library. University of Sydney. Retrieved 14 December 2011.

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