12-398: Aldinga may also refer to: Aldinga, South Australia , a locality Aldinga Bay , a bay Aldinga Football Club , an Australian rules football club Aldinga Airfield , an airfield See also [ edit ] Aldinga Beach, South Australia Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park Aldinga Reef Aquatic Reserve Topics referred to by
24-646: A population decline . However, the town survived due to its location on the Old Coach Road which continues south to towns along the east coast of Gulf St Vincent as part of what is now called the Main South Road . Aldinga Post Office opened around 1851 and closed in 1992. The bands Another's Life , The Fall of Troy, I Killed The Prom Queen and Spirit of Alondray come from Aldinga. Gulf St Vincent Gulf St Vincent , sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf , St Vincent's Gulf or Gulf of St Vincent ,
36-685: A number of basins to form along the southern Australian coastline. Around 40 million years ago a number of blocks formed with the Mount Lofty Ranges rising to the east of the St Vincent basin. At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum around 10,000-15,000 years ago, the sea levels rose and covered the St. Vincent basin. To the south it is defined by a line from Troubridge Point on Yorke Peninsula to Cape Jervis on Fleurieu Peninsula. Its entrances from
48-564: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aldinga, South Australia Aldinga / ɔː l ˈ d ɪ ŋ ɡ ə / is a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia located about 45 kilometres (28 miles) south of the Adelaide city centre in the City of Onkaparinga . It is a small suburb (population around 573 in 2016), about a kilometre east of
60-654: Is the eastern of two large inlets of water on the southern coast of Australia , in the state of South Australia , the other being the larger Spencer Gulf , from which it is separated by Yorke Peninsula . On its eastern side the gulf is bordered by the Adelaide Plains and the Fleurieu Peninsula . The St Vincent basin is formed from Cenozoic sediments deposited over, and surrounded by, Proterozoic and Paleozoic rock. Around 55 million years ago Gondwanaland broke up and Australia separated from Antarctica, causing
72-460: The 1870s, when Bishop Augustus Short sent the remaining people to the mission at Poonindie , thus ending their occupation of the area. After they were removed, some Aboriginal people from the Goolwa area ( Ngarrindjeri people) occupied the area. The Kaurna language name of Aldinga was Ngaltingga. After British colonisation of South Australia , Aldinga started as a town in the 1850s in response to
84-558: The area, the Kaurna people was Wongajerla , also spelt Wongga Yerlo or Wonggayerlo , meaning "western sea". It was named Gulph of St. Vincent by Matthew Flinders on 30 March 1802, in honour of Admiral John Jervis (1st Earl of St Vincent) who won a naval victory off Cape St. Vincent , Portugal. It was shortly afterwards (after his meeting with Flinders at Encounter Bay on 8 April 1802) mapped by Nicolas Baudin , who named it Golfe de la Mauvaise or Golfe de la Misanthrophie . In
96-556: The development of farming on the Aldinga Plains. The layout of the town in circa 1857 is attributed to Lewis Fidge, a local farmer. The town is reported as growing quickly with the construction of a "hotel, church, blacksmith 's shop and a number of other shops and trades". In the 1870s, the combination of declining productivity of the land and opportunities such as the availability of land in South Australia's mid-North resulted in
108-466: The edge of the larger suburb of Aldinga Beach , and about 3 km (1.9 mi) from the beachfront. Before British colonisation of South Australia , the Kaurna people occupied the land from the Adelaide plains and southwards down the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula . There was a camp at Aldinga known as Camp Coortandillah, and Kaurna people were present living in the Aldinga Scrub until
120-540: The following year Louis de Freycinet renamed it Golphe Josephine to honour Josephine Bonaparte . Due to Flinders' lengthy imprisonment on Mauritius during his return to England, the publication of Baudin's map preceded that of Flinders by three years. The Adelaide Desalination Plant which is located on Gulf St Vincent's eastern shore in Lonsdale , supplies the Adelaide metropolitan area with desalinated water from
132-410: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Aldinga . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aldinga&oldid=894680001 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732898007586144-406: The southwest are from Investigator Strait , and to the southeast from Backstairs Passage , which separate Kangaroo Island from the mainland. Adelaide lies midway along the gulf's east shore. Other towns located on the gulf, from west to east include Edithburgh , Port Vincent , Ardrossan and Port Wakefield and Normanville . The Aboriginal name given to it by the original inhabitants of
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