Moorook is a town and locality in Australian state of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o ...

. It is part of a series of towns surrounding lakes in the Riverland region in

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. At the 2016 census, Moorook had a population of 189. The town of Moorook was surveyed in April 1922 on the left bank of the

Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...

where it flows north between Loxton and Kingston on Murray. Moorook is just downstream of Moorook Island and upstream of most of Moorook Game Reserve which surrounds and contains Wachtels Lagoon. Moorook is a few kilometres south of the

Sturt Highway Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions situated adjacent to the r ...

and is a few kilometres northeast of the terminus of the former Moorook railway line.

Village settlement

Moorook had earlier been one of the experimental Village Settlements. These were established by the South Australian government under Part VII of the Crown Lands Amendment Act 1893, in an attempt to mitigate the effects of the depression then affecting the Colony.

Hundred of Moorook

The Hundred of Moorook was proclaimed in 1893 to facilitate closer settlement of that part of the

County of Albert The County of Albert is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia on the east banks of the River Murray. It was proclaimed by Governor Richard MacDonnell in 1860 and named for Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Hundreds A f ...

. The Hundred extends from the Murray River on its northern and northeastern boundary south almost 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 ...

and town of Wunkar. it includes the towns of Kingston On Murray and Moorook as well as the localities of Wigley Flat, Yinkanie, Wappilka and most of Woolpunda. The Moorook railway line extended to service the hundred from 1925.

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