Mangalo, South Australia
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| Coordinates: 33°32′S 136°37′E / 33.53°S 136.62°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 56 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5602 | ||||||||||||
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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.[3]
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,[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[3]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mangalo (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mangalo (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Placename Details: Mangalo". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 1 July 2014. SA0042416. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ Kielpa to Mangalo Hall Railway Act 1916 No. 1265, Government Printer, 24 June 2011, retrieved 30 June 2017
- ^ "Kielpa-Mangalo Railway Vetoed". Eyre's Peninsula Tribune. Vol. XIV, no. 882. South Australia. 29 August 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "KIELPA-MANGALO RAILWAY CHALLENGED". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXVII, no. 5, 835. South Australia. 20 November 1920. p. 28. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.