Kielpa, South Australia
Town in South Australia
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Kielpa is a town and locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[1] It is midway between Rudall and Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.[1]
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  Kielpa | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°35′15″S 136°13′25″E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 4 June 1914 (town) 23 December 1998 (locality)[2][3] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 55 (SAL 2021)[4] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5642 | ||||||||||||
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Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley.[5] 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,[6] 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.[7]
