Yacka is a small
town
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Origin and use
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in the shallow valley of the
Broughton River in the
Mid North
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of
South Australia
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. It lies where the
Horrocks Highway
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(Main North Road) crosses the
Broughton River midway between
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and
Gladstone
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. It was also a station on the
Gladstone-Balaklava railway, built as narrow gauge in 1894, converted to broad gauge in 1927 and closed by 1993.
The town name is a shortened form of 'Yackamoorundie' an indigenous place name for the area which was used to name
Yackamoorundie Creek. The creek, which rises north of
Caltowie, makes a significant bend from flowing southwards to flowing westwards near
Gulnare about , as the crow flies, north-west of Yacka.
See also
*
Hundred of Yackamoorundie
References
Towns in South Australia
Mid North (South Australia)
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