Hundred of Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°44′S 138°33′E / 34.73°S 138.55°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 29 October 1846 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 177 km2 (68.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Port Adelaide is a
Local government
The
The
The District Council of Glanville was established in 1864 along the coast and protruded into the south west extremity of the hundred. The part of Glanville council within the Hundred of Port Adelaide was absorbed into new the Corporate Town of Semaphore in 1884. The District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula was established at Exeter in 1872 but it amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality in 1884. The District Council of Birkenhead was established in 1877 by secession from Lefevre's Peninsula council. By 1884, the latter amalgamated with Birkenhead council and in 1886 Birkenhead itself amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality.
The District Council of Rosewater on the other side of the Port River estuary was established in 1877. Like the other port-side councils it too was amalgamated with the Port Adelaide municipality in 1889.
In 1890, the municipality of Semaphore was the only remaining local government body on Lefevre Peninsula aside from Port Adelaide. It amalgamated with Port Adelaide municipality in 1900.
When the City of Port Adelaide and City of Enfield were amalgamated in 1996, all of the urbanised parts of the Hundred of Port Adelaide were governed by the same local government body, the
See also
References
- ^ "Search for 'Hundred of Port Adelaide'". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0040459. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
Other details: Area 68 1/2 square miles.
- ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.