Mangalo is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It has a Memorial Hall, CFS and bulk grain silos but has never had a railway line to service them. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for sand.[2]
| Mangalo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Mangalo | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°32′S 136°37′E / 33.53°S 136.62°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 56 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5602 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Cleve | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | [2] | ||||||||||||||
Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,[3] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[4] In 1920, one of the reasons not to proceed with building this railway was that it would be redundant to a railway linking Murat Bay to Cowell.[5] However this railway was never built either.
The locality of Mangalo comprises the Hundred of Mangalo and Hundred of Heggaton. It includes the Heggaton Conservation Park.[2]