Mobilong, South Australia
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| Mobilong South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Mobilong | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°06′00″S 139°16′37″E / 35.100°S 139.277°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 7 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5253 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Rural City of Murray Bridge | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Hammond | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates[2] | ||||||||||||||
Mobilong is a suburb of Murray Bridge in South Australia, on the west bank of the Murray River.[2] Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of land adjacently north of the Murray Bridge city centre and including the Mobilong Swamp and Murray Bridge Irrigation Area.[2]
Mobilong was the original name for the early settlement of Murray Bridge itself. The present-day locality, however, was specifically named after Mobilong Swamp in 2000.[2] According to South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning, the word Mobilong is a corruption of the Aboriginal term mupulawangk, meaning "soft reed place" as "reeds along the [Murray] river bank were used in the making of coiled baskets."[3] The word appears to have first been used officially in the vicinity to name the cadastral division, the Hundred of Mobilong, in 1860.[4]
Despite its name, the Mobilong Prison is not in the locality of Mobilong, but in the northwestern corner of the locality of Murray Bridge, adjoining Rocky Gully.
