en Mount Rat, South Australia

Mount Rat
Wauraltee^[1], South Australia
Mount Rat; Wauraltee, South Australia
	St Raphael's Anglican church
	Mount Rat
Coordinates	34°37′40″S 137°35′53″E / 34.627696°S 137.597998°E
Established	1850s
Elevation	134 m (440 ft)

Mount Rat is a former subdivision in South Australia located in the locality of Wauraltee on the Yorke Peninsula.^[1] It is located near the junction of the Spencer Highway and Mount Rat Road about halfway between the centres of Maitland and Minlaton.^[1]

It was first founded in the 1850s, and by 1882 had a school, hotel, blacksmiths, chapel and a large water tank. In 1877, Church of England services commenced at the Mount Rat Post Office as there was no church building.^[3]

The success of the area in the growing of wheat helped to make the case for a much needed jetty at nearby Port Rickaby.^[4]^[5]

By 1905 the school had closed, and now the town has mostly disappeared.

The Anglican church was dedicated to the Archangel Raphael in 1945 by the Rt. Rev. B. P. Robin.^[6]

There are presently two water tanks and a telecommunications tower at Mount Rat.^[2]

A close-up of the information sign.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Search result for "Mount Rat, Subd" with the following datasets being selected -"Suburbs and Localities" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b Josh, The (7 August 2007). "Mount rat info sign close". Wikimedia. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ "Country Correspondence". Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser And Miners' And Farmers' Journal. Vol. VI, no. 530. South Australia. 2 November 1877. p. 3. Retrieved 8 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "MOUNT RAT, Y.P., June 15". South Australian Register. Vol. XLII, no. 9545. South Australia. 18 June 1877. p. 7. Retrieved 8 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "THE INQUEST ON ANN COLE". South Australian Register. Vol. XLII, no. 9547. South Australia. 20 June 1877. p. 5. Retrieved 8 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "MOUNT RAT". The Pioneer. Vol. 47, no. 2451. South Australia. 9 November 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 8 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia.