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Boinka

Boinka

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nameBoinka
statevic
imageBoinka1925.jpg
caption1925 – Filling tanks from the main water supply of Boinka
lgaRural City of Mildura
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coordinates
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postcode3490
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dist1496
location1Melbourne
dist2174
location2Mildura
dist38
location3Linga
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location4Tutye
near-nwMurray-Sunset
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near-eLinga
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| near-nw = Murray-Sunset | near-n = Murray-Sunset | near-ne = Murray-Sunset | near-w = Tutye | near-e = Linga | near-sw = Big Desert | near-s = Big Desert | near-se = Big Desert

Boinka is a locality situated on the section of the Mallee Highway and Pinnaroo railway line between Ouyen and the South Australian border in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, Australia. Boinka is situated approximately 4 kilometres east from Tutye and 8 kilometres west from Linga.

The name Boinka means "flat black beetle" in the language of the indigenous people of Lake Hindmarsh.

The location has a rich history of settlement and is the subject of a photograph collection within the archives of the Museum of Victoria. The Boinka State School (No 3800) is listed as a part of Heritage Victoria – owned by the Crown Reserve and managed by Rural City Council of Mildura. The township was established in the early 1910s, and the Post Office opened on 15 July 1912 when a regular mail service was provided by the opening of the railway from Ouyen to Murrayville a month earlier. The office closed in 1975. The railway station closed a year later, on 30 June 1976.

Unique facts

1940 – Boinka Streetscape

Boinka is listed within the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act of 1988 as being one of only two places where Pale Myoporum (Myoporum brevipes Benth.), a recumbent or erect shrub of up to 2 metres in height (widespread in South Australia), is known to grow indigenously outside of that location.

References

References

  1. {{Census 2016 AUS
  2. [http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate] {{webarchive. link. (25 March 2007)
  3. [http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/languages/smyth_pdf/m0043315_a.pdf Lake Hindmarsh Aboriginal Language Specimens] {{webarchive. link. (4 September 2007)
  4. [http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/pages/pdfs/publications/managingheritageappend.pdf Heritage Places in Victoria] {{webarchive. link. (24 August 2006)
  5. Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List".
  6. (September 1976). "Traffic". Australian Railway Historical Society.
  7. [http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/CA256F310024B628/0/711B73E8EDF06E9CCA2570ED001AAAE5/$File/161+Pale+Myoporum+2002.pdf Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)]
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