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Chinkapook is a locality in Victoria , Australia , located approximately 67 km from Swan Hill . It is on the Robinvale railway line , 70 km south of the terminus at Robinvale .
The Post Office opened on 12 September 1910 as Christmas Tank, was renamed Chinkapook in 1914 and closed in 1974.[3]
In 1990, popular youth ABC TV music program, Countdown Revolution hosted a live event at Chinkapook, which featured the band Roxus on stage.
Many of Australian poet John Shaw Neilson 's notebooks were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook.[4] Douglas Stewart 's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.[5] [6]
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^ Phoenix AuctionsHistory, Post Office List , retrieved 27 March 2021
^ Nancy Keesing (1978). "Introduction to The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson" (PDF) . The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson . National Library of Australia . p. 22 . Retrieved 14 December 2011 .
^ Pierce, Peter (28 May 2011). "Tidy poetry of the parochial" . The Australian News Corporation . Retrieved 14 December 2011 .
^ "The Mice of Chinkapook" . Australian Poetry Library . University of Sydney . Retrieved 14 December 2011 .
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