Boinka, Victoria

Boinka Victoria
1925 - Filling tanks from the main water supply of Boinka
Boinka
Postcode:	3490
Location:	496 km (308 mi) from Melbourne 174 km (108 mi) from Mildura 8 km (5 mi) from Linga 4 km (2 mi) from Tutye
LGA:	Rural City of Mildura
Localities around Boinka: Murray-Sunset Murray-Sunset Murray-Sunset Tutye Boinka Linga Big Desert Big Desert Big Desert

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.

The name Boinka meant "flat black beetle" in the language of the indigenous people of Lake Hindmarsh.

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. The township was established in the early 1910s and the Post Office opened on 15 July 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.

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.

Unique facts

1940 - Boinka Streetscape

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.