Koonoona South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°49′50″S 138°55′44″E / 33.830540°S 138.9288°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 7 ( SAL 2021) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5417 [2] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart [2] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey [2] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Coordinates [3] |
Koonoona is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder. [2] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". [3] It occupies the north-western corner of the cadastral Hundred of Apoinga. [4]
The area was originally the territory of the Ngadjuri people. [5] It was named after the Koonoona Station and Merino stud, which was established in 1863 by Walter Duffield and T. S. Porter. [6] [7] Koonoona Station was described in 1929 as "one of the oldest estates in this district" and "noted for the breed of its merino sheep"; another correspondent in 1933 labelled it "one of the most important [Merino studs] in the Commonwealth". [8] [7]
Koonoona Provisional School opened in 1894, was declared half-time with Gum Creek in 1903, and closed in 1915. [9]