Chinkapook

Chinkapook is a rural locality in north-west Victoria 60 km north-west of Swan Hill and on the railway line to Manangatang.

The district was originally the Eureka pastoral run (1848), north of Lake Tyrell. In 1880s the run was subdivided for pastoral leaseholds, partly with the objectives of closer settlement and attendant farm fencing as a means of reducing the vermin population. A township was surveyed in 1903. The origin of the name Chinkapook is uncertain, various authorities stating that the name means foot, red pool or red ochre in its form as an Aboriginal word.