Chinkapook
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| Coordinates: 35°11′S 142°57′E / 35.183°S 142.950°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 17 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3546 | ||||||||||||
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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.
In 1990, the popular youth ABC TV music program, Countdown Revolution, hosted a live event at Chinkapook, which featured the band Roxus on stage.
Many of the notebooks owned by the Australian poet John Shaw Neilson were destroyed or severely damaged in a mouse plague at Chinkapook. Douglas Stewart's poem "The Mice of Chinkapook" refers to this event.