Port Gawler
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Port Gawler South Australia |
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 Port Gawler
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| Coordinates | 34°37′59″S 138°29′38″E / 34.63306°S 138.49389°ECoordinates: 34°37′59″S 138°29′38″E / 34.63306°S 138.49389°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5501 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Adelaide Plains Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Taylor | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
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Hundred of Port Gawler South Australia |
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Ford over Light River at Korunye
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| Established | 7 August 1851 | ||||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||||
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Port Gawler is a locality and former port on Gulf St Vincent on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia. 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.
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. 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. It was named in 1851 by Governor Henry Young either directly or indirectly after the former Governor George Gawler.
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:
The first local government body established in the area was the District Council of Mudla Wirra, proclaimed in 1854 and encompassing the parts of the Hundred of Port Gawler and Hundred of Grace south of the River Light as well as the Hundred of Mudla Wirra. In 1856 those parts in the hundreds of Grace and Port Gawler seceded to form the District Council of Port Gawler. In 1935 Port Gawler council amalgamated with Dublin and Grace councils to form the District Council of Mallala (initially called District Council of Light, much later called Adelaide Plains Council).
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