Jabuk (formerly Marmon Jabuk) is a locality in the Australian state of

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located about south-east of the state capital of

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and respectively about west and east of the municipal seats of Pinnaroo and

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. It began originally by 1908 as a private subdivision of section 5 in the cadastral unit of the

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by a local landowner known as "Mr.Cross of Wellington". In several sources, it has been described as a private town. The name was officially altered from Marmon Jabuk to Jabuk on 20 February 1941. Boundaries for the locality were created on 12 August 1999 for the portion within the

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and on 24 August 2000 for the portion within the

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. The name appears to be derived from the nearby Marmon Jabuk Range, but the origin of that name is unclear. It could be named from an Afghan word by a cameleer, or from a local

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word. The 'private town' is located in the approximate centre of the locality with the

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to its north and the Pinnaroo railway line to its south. There is also a war memorial,

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, football oval, tennis courts with lights and a play ground. Jabuk has a tennis club with a senior section. The football oval is no longer in use, and now farmed, and its clubrooms are used by the Jabuk tennis team. The Epiphany Lutheran Church, the foundation stone being laid on 7 February 1960, has long been closed. There is also a Baptist church which is no longer in use. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Jabuk had a population of 66. Jabuk is located within the federal

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, the state

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and the local government areas of the Coorong District Council and the Southern Mallee District Council.

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