Mount Hope
South Australia
Mount Hope is located in South Australia
Mount Hope
Mount Hope
Coordinates34°06′38″S 135°21′11″E / 34.110555°S 135.352962°E / -34.110555; 135.352962[1]
Population46 (2016 census)[2]
Established30 Nov 1916 (town)[3]
Postcode(s)5607[4]
Elevation52 m (171 ft)[5]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
RegionEyre Western[1]
CountyFlinders[1]
Musgrave[1]
State electorate(s)Flinders[6]
Federal division(s)Grey[7]
Localities around Mount Hope:
Great Australian Bight Kiana Mitchell
Great Australian Bight Mount Hope Mitchell
Kapinnie
Great Australian Bight Mount Drummond Kapinnie
FootnotesAdjoining localities[1]

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.[8] 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.[9] The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974.[9] In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.[10]

The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Hope had a population of 46 people.[2]

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.[7][1][6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "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. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Hope (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Styles, A.W. (30 November 1916). "TOWN OF MOUNT HOPE" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 1045. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Postcode for Mount Hope, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "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. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  6. 1 2 "District of Flinders Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  8. ↑ Kapinnie and Mount Hope Railway Discontinuance Act, 1966, No. 11, Government Printer, 24 May 2011, retrieved 13 August 2015
  9. 1 2 "Place Names of South Australia - H". The Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "GENERAL NEWS". The Advertiser. Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 22 May 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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