Mount Hope, South Australia
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| Mount Hope South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Mount Hope | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°06′38″S 135°21′11″E / 34.110555°S 135.352962°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 41 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 30 Nov 1916 (town)[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5607[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 52 m (171 ft)[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Eyre Western[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Flinders[1] Musgrave[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders[6] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[7] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[1] | ||||||||||||||
Mount Hope is a small town on the Flinders Highway on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was the terminus of a branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Yeelanna from 1914 until but the line was closed and dismantled in 1966.[8] The town was surveyed in 1916, and proposed to be named Mount Woakwine, but no action was taken to call it that.[1]
Mount Hope was part of the traditional territory of the Nauo. It was first traversed by Europeans when Edward John Eyre passed that way in 1839.[9] The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974.[9] In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.[10]
Mount Hope is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.[7][1][6]
