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Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.
Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill, Victoria. It is on the Robinvale railway line, 70 km south of the terminus at Robinvale.
The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.Many of Australian poet John Shaw Neilson's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook.Douglas Stewart's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.
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Population: 1 - 100
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 207.729 km2
Elevation: 51 to 200 metres
Town elevation: 64 m
Population number: 32
Local Government Area: Swan Hill Rural City Council
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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Chinkapook, Victoria