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 1925 – Filling tanks from the main water supply of Boinka | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates:35°12′14″S141°36′38″E / 35.20389°S 141.61056°E /-35.20389; 141.61056 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 13 (2016 census)[3] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3490 | ||||||||||||
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Boinka is a locality situated on the section of theMallee Highway andPinnaroo railway line betweenOuyen and theSouth Australian border in theSunraysia region ofVictoria,Australia. Boinka is situated approximately 4 kilometres east fromTutye and 8 kilometres west fromLinga.
The name Boinka means "flat black beetle" in the language of theindigenous people ofLake Hindmarsh.[4]
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.[5] 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 fromOuyen toMurrayville a month earlier. The office closed in 1975.[6] The railway station closed a year later, on 30 June 1976.[7]
Boinka is listed within the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act of 1988 as being one of only two places wherePaleMyoporum (Myoporum brevipes Benth.), arecumbent or erect shrub of up to 2 metres in height (widespread inSouth Australia), is known to grow indigenously outside of that location.[8]
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