Hindmarsh Island, South Australia
| Native name: Kumerangk | |
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 Hindmarsh Island
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| Location | South Australia |
| Coordinates | 35°31′S 138°52′E / 35.517°S 138.867°ECoordinates: 35°31′S 138°52′E / 35.517°S 138.867°E |
| Area | 45.5 km2 (17.6 sq mi) |
| Length | 14.7 km (9.13 mi) |
| Width | 6.5 km (4.04 mi) |
| Coastline | 43.7 km (27.15 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
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| Demographics | |
| Population | 1233~ |
Hindmarsh Island (Aboriginal: Kumerangk) is a sacred island in the lower Murray River near the town of Goolwa, South Australia. The island is a tourist destination, which has increased in popularity since the opening of the Hindmarsh Island bridge in 2001. Hindmarsh Island is 100.1 kilometres (62.2 miles) south east of the Adelaide city centre, around a 1-hour and 30 minute drive.
1830: The first European to set foot on Hindmarsh Island was Captain Charles Sturt. Sturt used the Island as a viewing point and from there he sighted the Murray Mouth.
1831: Captain Collet Barker surveyed the Murray Mouth but was killed by Indigenous Australians after swimming across the mouth.
1837: The island was named by Captain John William Dundas Blenkinsop after South Australia's first Governor, Sir John Hindmarsh.
1849: Dr. John Rankine was granted an occupational licence to become the island's first grazier. His nephew James Rankine was an early and longtime settler.
1853: Charles Price purchased section 20 (32 hectares (80 acres))on the island.
1856: A flour mill was constructed.
1857: A signal mast was erected at Barker Knoll to convey safe passage condition messages to vessels wishing to pass through the mouth.
1858: A public ferry began operations between Goolwa and the island. In the same year the first inter colonial telegraph line passed through the island to link Adelaide with Melbourne.
1861: The cemetery was surveyed.
1880s: Alberto and Selberto Forest were planted.
1868: Hereford cattle and Shropshire sheep arrived in South Australia, when Charles Price introduced them onto the island.
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