O'Halloran Hill, South Australia
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O'Halloran Hill Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Population | 2,616 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1838 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5158 | ||||||||||||
| Location | 18 km (11 mi) from City-centre | ||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Mitchell, Davenport, Fisher | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Boothby, Kingston | ||||||||||||
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O'Halloran Hill is a suburb in the south of Adelaide, South Australia, situated on the hills south of the O'Halloran Hill Escarpment, which rises from the Adelaide Plains and located 18 km from the city centre via the Main South Road. The suburb is split between the Cities of Marion and Onkaparinga, and it neighbours Happy Valley, Hallett Cove, Trott Park and Darlington.
Located on the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges bordering the Adelaide plains, the suburb was named after Major Thomas O'Halloran, the first Police Commissioner of South Australia. O'Halloran was the second son of Major-General Sir Joseph O'Halloran. Majors Road, which runs through the suburb was also named in his honour.
In pre-European times this area, along with most of the Adelaide plains, was inhabited by the Kaurna tribe. During the suburbs early years there was conflict with the local Kaurna due to their tradition of burning off scrub in the foothills to encourage game, as the fires tended to cause considerable damage to local farmland. In an official report, Major Thomas O'Halloran claimed the Kaurna also used this as a weapon against the colonists by lighting fires to deliberately destroy fences, survey pegs and to scatter livestock. Due to this regular burning, the foothills' original Stringybark forests had been largely replaced with grassland by the time the first Europeans arrived. Since the late 1960s, restrictions on subdivision and development have allowed regeneration of native trees and bush to a "natural" condition that would never have actually existed.
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