Mobilong, South Australia

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| name = Mobilong

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| lga = Rural City of Murray Bridge

| postcode = 5253

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| fedgov = Barker

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| near-nw = Murray Bridge North

| near-n = Murray Bridge North

| near-ne = Toora

| near-e = Riverglades

| near-se = Murray Bridge East

| near-s = Murray Bridge

| near-sw = Murray Bridge

| near-w = Northern Heights

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Mobilong is a suburb of Murray Bridge in South Australia, on the west bank of the Murray River.{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Property Location Browser: Search for 'Mobilong, LOCB' (ID SA0019839) |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=11 July 2016}} Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of land adjacently north of the Murray Bridge city centre and including the Mobilong Swamp and Murray Bridge Irrigation Area.

Mobilong was the original name for the early settlement of Murray Bridge itself. The present-day locality, however, was specifically named after Mobilong Swamp in 2000. According to South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning, the word Mobilong is a corruption of the Aboriginal term mupulawangk, meaning "soft reed place" as "reeds along the [Murray] river bank were used in the making of coiled baskets."{{Cite web |url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/m/m9.htm#mobilong |title=Place Names of South Australia - M - Mobilong |work=Manning Index of South Australian History |publisher=State Library of South Australia |accessdate=11 July 2016}} Index compiled based on {{Cite book |title=Manning's Place Names of South Australia from Aaron Creek to Zion Hill |first=Geoffrey H. |last=Manning |date=2006 |publisher=Gould Books |location=Modbury, South Australia |isbn=9780947284602}} The word appears to have first been used officially in the vicinity to name the cadastral division, the Hundred of Mobilong, in 1860.{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |title=Property Location Browser: Search for 'Hundred of Mobilong, HD' (ID SA0045460) |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=11 July 2016}}

Despite its name, the Mobilong Prison is not in the locality of Mobilong, but in the northwestern corner of the locality of Murray Bridge, adjoining Rocky Gully.