Population 289 (2006 census) State electorate(s) Chaffey Postal code 5332 Federal division Division of Barker | Postcode(s) 5332 Moorook Loveday Local time Saturday 11:37 PM | |
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LGA(s) District Council of Loxton Waikerie Weather 22°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 42% Humidity | ||
Moorook is a settlement in South Australia. It is part of a series of towns surrounding lakes in the Riverland region in Australia. At the 2006 census, Moorook had a population of 289.
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Map of Moorook South SA 5332, Australia
The town of Moorook was surveyed in April 1922 on the left bank of the Murray River 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 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.