Willalooka is a small service town and locality in the

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region of

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. it is located on the Riddoch Highway between

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and Padthaway.

Christmas Rocks Conservation Park __NOTOC__ Christmas Rocks Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Willalooka about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the town of Keith. The c ...

is north of the town adjacent to the highway. Services in the town include the

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, a community hall, tavern, fuel and general store. The dominant industry in the area is farming, especially sheep. Near Willalooka is the ''Darwent Waterhole,'' called by the local Aborigines ''kongal,'' meaning 'water mallee'. South Australian Names
Joseph Darwent, an American steamship owner who took up several pastoral properties near Willalooka in the 1870s. Not to be confused with Joseph Darwent (c. 1824 – 20 October 1872), an English accountant, secretary of the Adelaide City and Port Railway Company, then partner in Darwent & Dalwood who contracted for the northernmost section of the

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. Nor his nephew, Joseph Darwent, jun. (1847 – 10 August 1926), from

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, who had a property near Coonawarra and lived in Penola, where he was a member of the District Council for 35 years and Chairman for 25. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Willalooka had a population of 143 people. Willalooka is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the

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Hundred of Willalooka

The bounded locality of Willalooka corresponds precisely in land area to the cadastral Hundred of Willalooka in the County of Buckingham. The hundred was named in 1921 after the earlier pastoral property in the area. Its surveyed area is a rectangle of .

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{{authority control Limestone Coast 1921 establishments in Australia

Hundred of Willalooka

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