Wonna South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°13′38″S 139°04′36″E / 33.2271°S 139.076787°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 0 ( SAL 2016) [2] [3] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5419 [4] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder [1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Yorke and Mid North [1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Kimberley [1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart [5] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey [6] | ||||||||||||||
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[7] Adjoining localities [7] |
Wonna is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder. [4] The modern locality was established in August 2000 when boundaries were formalised for the long established local name. [7]
The cadastral Hundred of Wonna was proclaimed by Governor William Jervois on 31 October 1878. [8] The modern locality covers a little over half of the hundred at the southern end, while also including a significant rural portion of the adjacent Hundred of Terowie; the remainder of the Hundred of Wonna is now in Franklyn. [4]
A government town named Mallett was surveyed in March 1880, but it was not successful and was declared to have ceased to exist on 16 May 1929. [9]
The historic Mungibbie Homestead is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the district and is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register, as is a nineteenth-century former smokehouse off Wonna Road. [10] [11]
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wonna had no people living within its boundaries. [12]