Moonta, South Australia

Moonta
South Australia
Moonta Town Hall
Moonta is located in South Australia
Moonta
Moonta
Coordinates34°04′00.3″S 137°35′20″E / 34.066750°S 137.58889°E / -34.066750; 137.58889
Population4,627 (UCL 2021)[1]
Established1863
Postcode(s)5558[2]
Elevation44 m (144 ft)[citation needed]
Location
LGA(s)Copper Coast[3]
State electorate(s)Narungga[4]
Federal division(s)Grey[5]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
23.8 °C
75 °F		 9.8 °C
50 °F		 330.1 mm
13 in
Localities around Moonta:
Moonta Bay North Moonta Cross Roads
Moonta Bay
Port Hughes		 Moonta Yelta
Port Hughes Kooroona Moonta Mines
FootnotesClimate[6]

Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, 165 km (103 mi) north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. It is one of three towns known as the Copper Coast or "Little Cornwall" for their shared copper mining history.[7][8]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Moonta (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Moonta, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference PLB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference AEC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KADINA AWS (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Kadina". District Council of the Copper Coast. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  8. ^ "South Australia's Copper Coast: The secret holiday spot that offers the best of Cornwall, only better". Herald Sun. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2016.