Chinkapook is a locality in
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
,
Australia, located approximately 67 km from
Swan Hill
Swan Hill is a city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River. At , Swan Hill had a population of 11,508.
Indigenous Peop ...
. It is on the
Robinvale railway line
The Robinvale railway line is a freight only country railway line in north-western Victoria, Australia. The line branches from the Mildura line at Dunolly, and at Inglewood the Eaglehawk – Inglewood line connects with the Piangil line ou ...
, 70 km south of the terminus at
Robinvale
Robinvale is a town on the south bank of the Murray River in north western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It is Murray River crossings, connected by a bridge to Euston, New South Wales, Euston on the other side of the river in New S ...
.
The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.
Many of Australian poet
John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poetry, Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the VicRoads ...
's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook.
's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.
Gallery
File:Chinkapook Building.JPG, The former CBA Bank.
File:Chinkapook Town Entry Sign.JPG, Entering Chinkapook
File:Chinkapook Church.JPG, Uniting Church.
References
External links
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Rural City of Swan Hill
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