__NOTOC__ Moockra is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the eastern side of the

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about north of the state capital of

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and about north-east and south-east respectively of the municipal seats of Melrose and

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. Boundaries for the locality were created on 13 March 1997 for the part within the

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, on 25 November 1999 for the part in the

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and on 16 December 1999 for the part in the

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. Its boundaries include the sites of the Government Towns of Hawkshaw and Moockra. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Moockra which is of Aboriginal origin and is ultimately derived from “a large rock on top of a hill” in the locality called the Moockra Tower. The locality consists of the full extent of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Moockra which itself covers an area of with parts of the following adjoining hundreds - Boolcunda in the north-west,

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to the west, Coonatto to the south, and Yanyarrie and Eurelia to the east. Moockra is located within the federal

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, the state electoral districts of Giles and

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, and the local government areas of the

, the

and the

Government towns within the locality

Moockra, formerly Coonatto

The Government Town of Coonatto was proclaimed on 7 February 1884 and is located in the Hundred of Coonatto to the immediate east of the site of the former Moockra Railway Station which closed on 4 April 1987 and which was a stop on the

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. Its name was ‘altered’ to ‘Moockra’ on 20 February 1941. A post office opened in October 1887.

Hawkshaw

The Government Town of Hawkshaw was proclaimed on 23 November 1882 and is located in Section 49 of the Hundred of Moockra. The South Australian historian,

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, suggests that it may be named after the English engineer, John Hawkshaw.

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