Tintinara
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| Coordinates: 35°53′0″S 140°03′0″E / 35.88333°S 140.05000°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1850s | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 20 m (66 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 277 (UCL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5266 | ||||||||||||
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Tintinara is a town located in the Murray and Mallee region of the South East of South Australia.
The town is situated on the Dukes Highway and the Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. It is in The Coorong District Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral district of MacKillop and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Barker. At the 2016 Australian census, the town and district had a population of 527.
The origin of the name has been debated. One possibility is that a local Aboriginal man was named Tin-Tin, and the 'ara' was appended to form the place name, or that one of the Boothbys' Aboriginal employees was named Tintinara. Geoff Manning suggests that the name may have derived from an Aboriginal word, tinlinyara, the stars in Orion's belt.