Monarto South is a locality in

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west of the

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and south east by road from

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. The

Monarto South railway station Monarto South railway station was located on the Adelaide to Wolseley line serving the South Australian town of Monarto South. It was the junction of the Sedan and Wolseley lines. History The railway station opened on 1 May 1886, following ...

is north of the

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between the Callington and Murray Bridge exits, but the locality spans south of the freeway to Chaunceys Line Road and Ferries McDonald Conservation Park. In the late 1970s Monarto Junction (or "New Murray Town") was proposed to be the site of a new satellite city of Adelaide. By the turn of the century the proposal had been completely abandoned. Monarto South took its name from the cadastral Hundred of Monarto (established 1847) centred on the original township of Monarto to the north. The name of the hundred was after "Queen Monarto", an aboriginal woman (spouse of a tribal leader) who lived in the area at the time of its proclamation.

Transport

Monarto South is adjacent to the main Adelaide to Wolseley line, with Monarto South station formerly a junction for the Sedan branch line running north on the plain between the

and the Mount Lofty Ranges. In the 2010s, a local government project to upgrade Ferries McDonald Road commenced in Monarto South which included bitumization of the road. Due to the presence of mallee fowl in the vicinity the project had to go through several iterations to ensure that the environmental impact is minimized. Completion of the project would create a heavy transport link from Langhorne Creek to the

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Parks

There are several significant parks within or overlapping into Monarto South, including: * Monarto Conservation Park (Braendler Scrub) * Loomooloo Sanctuary * Ferries McDonald Conservation Park * Monarto Woodlands Conservation Park

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