Wunkar is a small town in the

Murray Mallee The Murray Mallee is a cereal, grain-growing and sheep-farming area in the east of the Australian state of South Australia. The name is not formally designated but is widely used to refer to an area of approximately bounded by the Murray Rive ...

region of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

. Wunkar was originally a station on the

Moorook railway line The Yinkanie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Named the Wanbi to Moorook Railway in itenabling Act it never reached its intended destination on the River Murray. The railway ran from a junction with t ...

. The town was surveyed in 1926 after the railway station name was approved in 1925. The railway closed in 1971. Wunkar now lies adjacent to the

Stott Highway Stott Highway is a state-controlled highway in South Australia, linking Angaston in the Barossa Valley, through Sedan and Swan Reach, to Pyap in the Riverland region. It was named after Tom Stott, a member of the South Australian state pa ...

approximately 27 km west of Loxton. There are bulk grain silos at the former railway station. The school opened in 1925 and closed in 1973. The southern boundary of the locality of Wunkar on Farr Road includes the former town and railway siding of Tuscan. No infrastructure remains there. In its day, Tuscan had a sawmill and a busy railway siding, but no school. Towards the northern edge of the locality is the site of the former siding of Parrelun railway station, renamed to Myrla in 1925. Myrla had a school opened in 1920. No evidence of it remains today.

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