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Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill. It is on the Robinvale railway line, 70 km south of the terminus at Robinvale.

Chinkapook Victoria
Public hall
Chinkapook
Coordinates	35°11′S 142°57′E
Population	32 (2016)
Postcode(s)	3546
Location	394 km (245 mi) northwest of Melbourne 67 km (42 mi) northwest of Swan Hill 73 km (45 mi) south of Robinvale 158 km (98 mi) southeast of Mildura[1]
LGA(s)	Rural City of Swan Hill
Federal division(s)	Mallee
Localities around Chinkapook: Cocamba Cocamba Manangatang Gerahmin Chinkapook Turoar Lake Tyrrell Tyrrell Downs Chillingollah

The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.[2]

Many of Australian poet John Shaw Neilson's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook.[3] Douglas Stewart's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.[4][5]

Gallery

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  The former CBA Bank.
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  Entering Chinkapook
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  Uniting Church.

References

External links

Media related to Chinkapook at Wikimedia Commons

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