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Australia (also Australia Landing) is a former town located in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.[1] Australia was located on the Mississippi River.[2]

Australia
Former town
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Coordinates: 34°03′56″N 90°52′40″W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Bolivar
Elevation [1]	157 ft (48 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

History

Andrew Jackson Donelson, a planter, purchased 1,579 acres (639 ha) of land at Australia in 1857.[3]

Australia had a post office from 1858 to 1908.[4]

The population was 38 in 1900.[2]

The "Cessions Towhead Chute", a cutoff constructed on the Mississippi River, left Australia situated on a narrow channel no longer used for navigation.

Nothing remains of the settlement.

References

Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 176.
Cheathem, Mark R. (2012). Ballard, Michael B.; Cheathem, Mark R. (eds.). Slavery, Plantation Life, and Debt in Tennessee and Mississippi: The Example of Andrew Jackson Donelson. Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek. University Press of Mississippi. p. 17. ISBN 9781617036392.
"Post Offices". Postalhistory.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2016.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States
County seats: Cleveland and Rosedale
Cities	Cleveland Mound Bayou Rosedale Shaw‡ Shelby	Map of Mississippi highlighting Bolivar County
Towns	Alligator Benoit Beulah Boyle Duncan Gunnison Merigold Pace Renova Winstonville
CDPs	Bolivar Scott Skene Symonds
Other communities	Choctaw Christmas Dahomy Deeson Hushpuckena Lamont Litton Malvina O'Reilly Perthshire Round Lake Stringtown Waxhaw
Ghost towns	Australia Concordia Eutaw Huntington Mound Landing Prentiss Riverton Victoria
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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