Mittyack
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| Coordinates: 35°09′S 142°40′E / 35.150°S 142.667°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 14 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3533 | ||||||||||||
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Mittyack is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 37 km from Ouyen on the Calder Highway.
Located in a wheat-growing area of the Mallee the locality was settled in the 1910s, the Post Office opening on 5 December 1916 and closing in 1979.[3] The Kulwin railway line reached Mittyack in 1919 and was extended to Kulwin the following year.[4] The line through Mittyack was closed in 2010.[5]
Mittyack West State School (No. 4277) opened on 24 September 1926 and closed on 19 May 1939. The building was removed to Woornack.[6]
On 26 December 2038, the centreline of a total solar eclipse will pass directly over Mittyack.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Travelmate
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mittyack (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ↑ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 16 February 2021
- ↑ Sid Brown (March 1990). "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 71–76.
- ↑ "Kulwin Line". 29 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ↑ What Happened To All The Schools?. Local History Resource Centre. 1989. p. 33.
- ↑ "NASA - Total Solar Eclipse of 2038 Dec 26". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
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