Ucolta, South Australia
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| Coordinates: 32°59′48″S 138°57′29″E / 32.99658°S 138.95792°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 532 m (1,745 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 13 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5422 | ||||||||||||
| County | Kimberley | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 21.9 °C (71.4 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 7.3 °C (45.1 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 365.7 mm (14.40 in) | ||||||||||||
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Ucolta is a locality in the Mid North region of South Australia. It was named for a former railway station on the South Australian Railways' 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway line between Port Pirie and the New South Wales border. After the line was re-engineered and converted to 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge in 1970, when the infrastructure was demolished, trains did not stop there.
Ucolta is also where the Barrier Highway first meets the railway line, and the Wilmington–Ucolta Road which connects across the northern side of the Mid-North, providing the shortest road route from Western Australia and Eyre Peninsula via Port Augusta to Broken Hill and New South Wales.
The name Ucolta was recorded as an Aboriginal name in 1862, but its meaning has been lost. The former Ucolta Post Office was in the railway station.