Moomba, South Australia
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Moomba South Australia |
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 Moomba
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| Coordinates | 28°6′36″S 140°12′36″E / 28.11000°S 140.21000°ECoordinates: 28°6′36″S 140°12′36″E / 28.11000°S 140.21000°E | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5710 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 39 m (128 ft) | ||||||||
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| LGA(s) | unincorporated area | ||||||||
| Region | Far North | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||
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Moomba is a company town located in the Australian state of South Australia within the gazetted locality of Gidgealpa about 770 kilometres (480 mi) north of the state capital of Adelaide. It is operated by Santos Limited for the purpose of exploration and processing of natural gas found in and recovered from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins.
There are a number of partners and contractors on site including Bureau Veritas, O&G Solutions, Broadspectrum, OneSteel, Origin Energy, Diversified Construction, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, ProTechnics a Division of Corelab, GPA Engineering and SAGE Automation.
Moomba is situated on the Strzelecki Track which runs through northeastern South Australia and into South West Queensland. The settlement is located on a low-lying plain amongst sand dunes at very little height above sea level. Several hundred kilometres to the southwest lies Lake Eyre which is in fact below sea level.
Moomba experiences a mean maximum temperature of 38.6 °C (101.5 °F) in the hottest month of the year, January, with overnight mean minimum temperatures of 24.5 °C (76.1 °F). July is the coldest month, in winter, with 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) mean maximum temperature and 6.4 °C (43.5 °F) mean minimum temperature. On 12 January 2013, Moomba reached a record maximum temperature of 49.6 °C (121.3 °F), which is one of the hottest temperatures recorded in South Australia.
Moomba sits just on the edge of a rainfall region that has the lowest average rainfall in Australia (a region encompassing Marree and Lake Eyre). Rainfall is highly erratic, and some years it does not rain at all. However, when it does rain it can be extremely heavy and damaging thunderstorms can occur on a few days each year. Light winter rain can also be experienced, but this is just as infrequent and doesn't happen every year. The wettest month ever recorded was January 1974, with 439.4 millimetres (17.30 in) of rain falling.
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