| Kooloonong Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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  Kooloonong | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°52′S143°08′E / 34.867°S 143.133°E /-34.867; 143.133 | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 39[1] (2016 census) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3549 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Rural City of Swan Hill | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mallee | ||||||||||||||
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Kooloonong is a locality inVictoria, Australia, located approximately 147 km fromMildura and was on theYungera railway line.
Kooloonong was established as asoldier settlement area for returned servicemen fromWorld War I. By the mid-1920s, it was a thriving township with abush nursing hospital, government offices, a school, anRSL hall, a railway station and sporting facilities. The town has declined since then and now has only one occupied house, plus the rarely-used hall, aCFA shed and unused grain handling facilities.[3]
The railway north ofSwan Hill was extended fromPiangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[4] to support the soldier settlement farms in the area. For many years, water was carted to the location by train because there was no natural water supply.[5] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[4] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973.[6] It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922.[7]
In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus namedYungera,[8] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong andBoundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[9] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[10] to 1937.[11]