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Moorook
Moorook Location in Australia South Australia Riverland
Population	189 (2016 census)
Established	9 November 1922 (town) 28 September 2000 (locality)
Postcode(s)	5332
LGA(s)	District Council of Loxton Waikerie
State electorate(s)	Chaffey
Federal Division(s)	Barker
Localities around Moorook: Woolpunda Kingston On Murray Cobdogla Moorook Loveday Yinkanie Moorook South

Moorook is a town and locality in Australian state of South Australia. It is part of a series of towns surrounding lakes in the Riverland region in Australia. At the 2016 census, Moorook had a population of 189.

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.

Moorook is a few kilometres northeast of the terminus of the Moorook railway line which ran from Wanbi. It was closed in 1971 after road transport took over.

Village settlement

Moorook Village Settlement, River Murray, 1890

Hundred of Moorook, 1894

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.

Hundred of Moorook

The Hundred of Moorook was proclaimed in 1893 to facilitate closer settlement of that part of the County of Albert. The Hundred extends from the Murray River on its northern and northeastern boundary south almost to the Stott Highway and town of Wunkar. it includes the towns of Kingston On Murray and Moorook as well as the localities of Wigley Flat, Yinkanie, Wappilka and most of Woolpunda. The Moorook railway line extended to service the hundred from 1925.