Wallaroo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°55′0″S 137°37′0″E / 33.91667°S 137.61667°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 4,241 (UCL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1851 | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5556 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 44 m (144 ft) | ||||||||||||||
Location | 160 km (99 mi) NNW of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Copper Coast | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Narungga[2] | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining localities[3] |
Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, 160 kilometres (100 mi) northwest of Adelaide. It is one of the three Copper Triangle towns famed for their historic shared copper mining industry, and known together as "Little Cornwall", the other two being Kadina, about 8 kilometres (5 mi) to the east, and Moonta, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) south. In 2016, Wallaroo had a population of 3,988 according to the census held.[4]