Port Gawler, South Australia

Port Gawler
South Australia
Port Gawler
Coordinates 34°37′59″S 138°29′38″E / 34.63306°S 138.49389°E / -34.63306; 138.49389Coordinates: 34°37′59″S 138°29′38″E / 34.63306°S 138.49389°E / -34.63306; 138.49389
Postcode(s) 5501
Location
LGA(s) Adelaide Plains Council[1]
State electorate(s) Taylor
Federal Division(s) Wakefield[2]
Localities around Port Gawler:
Gulf St Vincent Middle Beach[1] Two Wells[1]
Gulf St Vincent[1] Port Gawler Two Wells[1]
Gulf St Vincent Buckland Park[1] Buckland Park[1]

Port Gawler is a locality and former port on Gulf St Vincent on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia.[3] Port Gawler is located 43 kilometres (27 mi) north west of Adelaide in the Adelaide Plains Council local government area at the mouth of the Gawler River.

Port Gawler was named in 1867 and a government town surveyed around 1869, but was officially declared to have ceased to exist on 23 June 1960. The boundaries for the modern locality were created for the long established name in June 1997, incorporating both the former government town and the private subdivision of Milner.[4][5]

Hundred of Port Gawler

Hundred of Port Gawler
South Australia
Established 7 August 1851
County Gawler
Lands administrative divisions around Hundred of Port Gawler:
Hundred of Dublin Hundred of Grace Hundred of Mudla Wirra
Hundred of Port Gawler Hundred of Mudla Wirra
Hundred of Port Adelaide Hundred of Munno Para

The Hundred of Port Gawler is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia and bounded on the south by the Gawler River.[6] It is centred on the town of Two Wells with the locality of Port Gawler at the south western corner of its boundary. It is one of the eight hundreds of the County of Gawler.[7] It was named in 1851 by Governor Henry Young either directly or indirectly after the former Governor George Gawler.[6]

The following localities and towns of the Adelaide Plains Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Port Gawler:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Development Plan - Mallala Council" (PDF). Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 132, 248, 276 & 284. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Federal electoral division of Wakefield" (PDF). ustralian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  4. ↑ "Search result(s) for Port Gawler, 5501". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Thursday, June 23, 1960" (PDF). The Government Gazette of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Search for 'Hundred of Port Gawler' (ID SA0040580)". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  7. ↑ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.


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