Boinka, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Boinka
state = vic

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caption = 1925 - Filling tanks from the main water supply of Boinka
lga = Rural City of Mildura
postcode = 3490
pop = 28 (within 7 km radius)
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dist1 = 496
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 174
location2= Mildura
dist3 = 8
location3= Linga
dist4 = 4
location4= Tutye [ [http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate] ]

Boinka is a locality situated on the section of the Mallee Highway between Ouyen and the South Australian border in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, Australia. The place by road is situated about 4 kilometres east from Tutye and 8 kilometres west from Linga. It has a population within a 7-kilometre radius of approximately 28 people. [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AS/7/Boinka.html www.fallingrain.com Boinka] ]

The name Boinka meant "flat black beetle" in the language of the indigenous people of Lake Hindmarsh. [ [http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/languages/smyth_pdf/m0043315_a.pdf Lake Hindmarsh Aboriginal Language Specimens] ]

The location has a rich history of settlement and is the subject of a photograph collection within the archives of the Museum of Victoria. The Boinka State School (No 3800) is listed as a part of Heritage Victoria, owned by the Crown Reserve and managed by Rural City Council of Mildura. [ [http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/pages/pdfs/publications/managingheritageappend.pdf Heritage Places in Victoria] ] . The township was established in the early 1910s and the Post Office opened on July 15, 1912 when a regular mail service was provided by the opening of the railway from Ouyen to Murrayville a month earlier. The office closed in 1975.Citation

last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

The Landcare Group area of concern, which in total takes in 319,175 hectares including 985 kilometres of roadside in the central west of the Mallee Region. [ [http://malleecma.vic.gov.au/landcare/lcg.asp?lcg=15 Murrayville Landcare Group] ]

Unique facts

Boinka is listed within the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 as being one of only two places where "Pale Myoporum (Myoporum brevipes Benth.)", a recumbent or erect shrub of up to 2 metres in height (widespread in South Australia), is known to grow indigenously outside of that location. [ [http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/CA256F310024B628/0/711B73E8EDF06E9CCA2570ED001AAAE5/$File/161+Pale+Myoporum+2002.pdf Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)] ]

Boinka is at the furthermost southern edge of the Rural City of Mildura Local Government area and as such it indicates the point where, unlike other Local Government areas outside of Melbourne, employees actually gain the full public holiday known as Melbourne Cup Day which occurs on the first Tuesday each November. [ [http://www.business.vic.gov.au/BUSVIC/STANDARD/1001/PC_50544.html Melbourne Cup Day - Rural City of Mildura] ]

Trivia

The word 'Boinka', as a part of the English vocabulary, is humorously defined in "The Meaning of Liff" as "The noise through the wall which tells you that the people next door enjoy a better sex life than you do."

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