Wunkar is a small town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. Wunkar was originally a station on the

Moorook railway line The Moorook railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It ran from a junction with the Barmera line at Wanbi north to Yinkanie near Moorook opening on 7 September 1925. It was proposed to later extend the line ...

. The town was surveyed in 1926 after the railway station name was approved in 1925. The railway closed in 1971. Wunkar now lies adjacent to the

Stott Highway The Stott Highway is the road from Angaston through Sedan and Swan Reach to Loxton in South Australia. It was named after Tom Stott Tom Cleave Stott CBE (6 June 1899 – 21 October 1976) spent 37 years as an independent member of the Sout ...

approximately 27 km west of Loxton. There are bulk grain silos at the former railway station. The school opened in 1925 and closed in 1973. The southern boundary of the locality of Wunkar on Farr Road includes the former town and railway siding of Tuscan. No infrastructure remains there. In its day, Tuscan had a sawmill and a busy railway siding, but no school. Towards the northern edge of the locality is the site of the former siding of Parrelun railway station, renamed to Myrla in 1925. Myrla had a school opened in 1920. No evidence of it remains today.

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