14-453: [REDACTED] The Hindmarsh River is a river located in the Fleurieu Peninsula region in the Australian state of South Australia . The Hindmarsh River rises in the Mount Lofty Range below Mount Cone flows generally south by east through the Hindmarsh Valley before reaching its mouth and emptying into Encounter Bay at Victor Harbor . The river descends 257 metres (843 ft) over its 23-kilometre (14 mi) course . The river
28-466: A face to the sea as the other projections, but slopes down, gradually, from the heights inland, of which Tree Hill, 345 metres (1,132 feet) high, 3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometres; 3.5 miles) ESE of Cape Jervis, is the most prominent. It was known by local Aboriginal people as "Parewarangk", this being a Ngarrindjeri adaptation of the Kaurna name Pariwarangga . The Baudin expedition to Australia visited
42-669: Is a headland located at the most westerly part of the Fleurieu Peninsula on the east coast of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia about 0.7 kilometres (0.43 miles) west of the town of the same name, Cape Jervis . It is the eastern end of the opening to Gulf St Vincent. The cape is described by one source as being: ...a high bold headland having but little vegetation. It is intersected by gullies and has several cliffy projections. The W, and most prominent, of these projections, referred to as The Cape, does not present so steep
56-455: Is named in honour of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh KH , RN , the first Governor of South Australia . This article about a river in South Australia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fleurieu Peninsula The Fleurieu Peninsula ( / ˈ f l ɜːr i oʊ / ) is a peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located south of
70-459: The state government that the unnamed peninsula terminating in Cape Jervis be given the name Fleurieu Peninsula "in honour of one who is worthy to be remembered in the annals of Australian geography". The government approved the name later that year. The Geographical Names Advisory Committee advised in 2001 that the extent of the peninsula is: that portion of land between Gulf St. Vincent and
84-500: The Far South Coast. Surf spots of note include Waitpinga and Middleton on the Far South Coast. In the past, there were extensive swamps and woodlands , which provided habitat and food sources for a range of birds, fish, and other animals, included snake-necked turtles , yabbies , rakali , ducks and black swans . Flora included the native orchid ( leek orchid ), guinea flower and swamp wattle (Wirilda). The swamps of
98-534: The Fleurieu Peninsula swamps at Yundi , which is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Adelaide. The Yundi Nature Conservancy, containing about 5 hectares (12 acres) of swamp, is south-east of McLaren Vale , near Mount Compass . There, Ngarrindjeri elders and scientists from various disciplines share their knowledge and plan for rewilding some more of the peninsula. A seed bank has been created to this end. Cape Jervis (headland) Cape Jervis
112-454: The Fleurieu Peninsula were listed as critically endangered under the EPBC Act in 2003; however, there is no adopted or made recovery plan for this ecological community, only "Approved Conservation Advice" (2013). Less than four percent of the original swampland remain today. A group that includes Aboriginal elders and scientists are as of 2021 documenting Aboriginal cultural knowledge for
126-510: The Southern Ocean (sic) , a line from Aldinga (sic) (southern end of Aldinga Bay ) to Middleton (eastern end) being the cut-off for the peninsula. This boundary has not to be gazetted at present, and is intended to be the extent of the geographic feature only and is not to be applied to any industry or interest group regional identification. The coast of the peninsula stretches from around 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Sellicks Beach in
140-463: The cape after Flinders and gave it two names, "Cap D'Alembert" and "Cap De La Secheresse", with the former being the one recorded in the expedition's official log. It was named Cape Jervis by the British explorer, Matthew Flinders , after John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent on 23 March 1802. A shore-based bay whaling station , run by John Haynes, was in operation at Fishery Beach by 1842. The fishery
154-466: The north to Middleton in the south-east. Towns on the peninsula include Victor Harbor , Normanville , Yankalilla and Rapid Bay . Districts include Inman Valley and Hindmarsh Valley. A ferry travels between Cape Jervis , at the tip of the peninsula, and Kangaroo Island . There is surfing on both the west and south facing coasts – known locally to Adelaide surfers as the Mid South Coast and
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#1732899139333168-567: The state capital of Adelaide . Before British colonisation of South Australia , the western side of the peninsula was occupied by the Kaurna people , while several clans of the Ngarrindjeri lived on the eastern side. The people were sustained by the flora and fauna of the peninsula, for food and bush medicine . The bulrushes , reeds and sedges were used for basket-weaving or making rope , trees provided wood for spears , and stones were fashioned into tools . The Fleurieu Peninsula
182-571: Was named after Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu , the French explorer and hydrographer , by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin as he explored the south coast of Australia in 1802. The name came into official use in 1911 after Fleurieu's great-nephew, Count Alphonse de Fleurieu, visited Adelaide and met with the Council of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia , which recommended to
196-447: Was purchased by a Mr Baker for £126 in March 1845. By 1850 a Mr Barnett had the fishery and it was run for him by a Mr Clark. It was owned by Messrs Boord, Bennett and Johnson in 1851. That seems to have been the last year it was in operation. Since 1871, it has been the site of a navigation aid in the form of a lighthouse . Immediately south of the lighthouse, there is a boat harbor with
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