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Kooloonong is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 147 km from Mildura, Victoria and was on the Yungera railway line.

Kooloonong Victoria
Kooloonong
Coordinates	34°52′S 143°08′E
Population	39 [1] (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	3549
Location	413 km (257 mi) from Melbourne 147 km (91 mi) from Mildura 98 km (61 mi) from Ouyen 264 km (164 mi) from Bendigo[2]
LGA(s)	Rural City of Swan Hill
Federal division(s)	Mallee
Localities around Kooloonong: Lake Powell Boundary Bend Narrung Wandown, Annuello Kooloonong Kenley Bolton Natya Natya

Kooloonong was established as a soldier settlement area for returned servicemen from World War I. By the mid-1920s, it was a thriving township with a bush nursing hospital, government offices, a school, an RSL 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, a CFA shed and unused grain handling facilities.[3]

The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil 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]

Yungera

In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[8] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary 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]

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