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Mount Hope
South Australia
Mount Hope is located in South Australia
Mount Hope
Mount Hope
Location in South Australia
Established 30 Nov 1916 (town)
Postcode(s) 5607
Elevation 52 m (171 ft)
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location
  • 310 km (193 mi) W of Adelaide
  • 80 km (50 mi) W of Port Lincoln
LGA(s) District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
Region Eyre Western
County Flinders
Musgrave
State electorate(s) Flinders
Federal Division(s) Grey
Localities around Mount Hope:
Great Australian Bight Kiana Mitchell
Great Australian Bight Mount Hope Mitchell
Kapinnie
Great Australian Bight Mount Drummond Kapinnie
Footnotes Adjoining localities

Mount Hope is a small town on the Flinders Highway on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It was the terminus of a branch of the Eyre Peninsula Railway from Yeelanna from 1914 until but the line was closed and dismantled in 1966. The town was surveyed in 1916, and proposed to be named Mount Woakwine, but no action was taken to call it that.

Mount Hope was part of the traditional territory of the Nauo. It was first traversed by Europeans when Edward John Eyre passed that way in 1839. The school opened in 1911 and closed in 1974. In 1912, it had an undenominational Sunday School run by the same teacher as taught in the school for the rest of the week.

Mount Hope is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.

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