Port Augusta Post Office buill around 1879. The old post slits. Now a private residence. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Port Augusta Post Office buill around 1879. The old post slits. Now a private residence. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Our “first fleet” arrived at Kingscote before they eventually reached Glenelg (Holdfast Bay) and proclaimed the colony of South Australia in December 1836. Colonel William Light spent some months exploring and reviewing potential sites for the capital of the colony which were on the coast – Rapid Bay, Encounter Bay, Port Lincoln, Port Adelaide etc. but he selected Adelaide on the banks of a major water supply, the Torrens River and within walking distance of a protected port – Port Misery, soon renamed Port Adelaide in 1838. In 1840 our second governor, Governor Gawler decided on Port Misery for a new wharf for shipping which was would provide vital communication with the outside world. The South Australian Company was awarded the contract to build and maintain the port. McLaren was the SA Company Manager at that time and the new wharf was named after him. A road was constructed from Adelaide to the new port. (Colonel Light had even planned a canal down the middle of the road to the port but this never eventuated). However, the first steam railway line in the colony was built between the city and Port Adelaide in 1856. This cemented the future of Port Adelaide as the preeminent port of South Australia which it still is. In the late 1870s and early 1880s the railway line system of the colony was planned to connect all major rural railway lines with Adelaide and Port Adelaide thus weakening all regional ports in the colony. As the colony began to grow any new port had to be approved by legislation as ports required wharves, harbourmasters, and customs officers. Gazetted ports did not stop a number of small localities establishing jetties and wharves for the “Mosquito fleet” or coastal ketches to take grain, wool and other goods from the local jetty to Port Adelaide for international shipping connections. Today SA has only a handful of ports and only two of them are staffed to handle incoming goods and people. They are Port Adelaide and Port Lincoln. Only three ports handle imports and they are Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln and Port Pirie. Our other international ports for exports only are Port Giles, Thevenard (Ceduna) and Wallaroo. Our ports in terms of the number of ships handle each year in order of greatest number are: Port Adelaide, Thevenard, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Wallaroo and Port Giles. In terms of tonnage handled our biggest ports in order are: Port Adelaide, Port Pirie, Thevenard, Port Lincoln, Wallaroo and finally Port Giles. Up until 1856 all jetties constructed in SA, apart from the wharves at Port Adelaide and Robe were on the Fleurieu Peninsula such as Normanville (1849), Port Elliot (1852), Port Willunga (1853), Encounter Bay (1854), Second Valley (1855), Port Noarlunga (1855), etc but this soon changed from that time onwards with the settlement of the Adelaide Plains. No formal jetties or wharves were built at places like Port Gawler, Port Parham in the 1850s but grain was loaded and unloaded here by hand. As the farming areas expanded in the late 1860s and 1870s more ports and jetties were declared in the South East, Yorke Peninsula and along Spencers Gulf. The first government port declared outside of Adelaide was Port Henry in 1849 which immediately became Port Wakefield. The historic wharves still exist there and for many years Port Wakefield was the second port of the colony. Captain Lipson, the Port Adelaide Harbourmaster selected the site for this port which was built to handle the copper ores from Burra copper mine as well as the baled wool from the sheep stations across the Adelaide Plains, in the Clare Hills and in the Lower North. The distance from Burra to Port Wakefield was half of that from Burra to Port Adelaide. Customs facilities (the first outside of Adelaide) were established in 1855 to handle ships sailing direct to Port Wakefield from international ports. Statistics are sparse but although Wakefield lost the copper trade to the railhead at Gawler from 1857 the port still expanded. In 1866 Port Wakefield was still second to Port Adelaide for wool exports. In that year it handled 3.3 million pounds weight of wool as it was such a safe port. Then in 1871 a horse railway was built to Hoyleton below the Clare Hills to open up the hinterland for grain farmers. The private railway line was soon taken over by the government, widened and strengthened to take steam engines. Port Wakefield from 1870 onwards handled large amounts of bagged wheat as well as wool. Then salt from the Lochiel salt works was added to the list and the port was still very busy until World War One when motor traffic finally saw the decline of Port Wakefield and its closure. The next major port to develop in the colony was that at Port Augusta in 1854. With its location at the head of Spencers Gulf meant it was able to tap into the wool trade from the Flinders Ranges. The Flinders Ranges also provided water for the town from creeks and springs at the foot of the ranges. Then copper was discovered in the Flinders Ranges at Blinman in 1859 and that mine operated through until 1918 although no company running the Blinman mine ever made much money. Sir Thomas Elder the wealthy pastoralist, banker and businessman built the first wharf and jetty at Port Augusta not long after the town was established in 1854. It still remains there. His own wool clip from his Beltana Station and that of others was shipped from here. Elder pioneered the use of camels to bring the bales of wool down to Port Augusta. Copper was usually carted through Pitchi Richi pass by bullock teams. The government finally decided to cash in on exports from Port Augusta and built a public wharf here in 1870. It too still exists. A second government jetty was built in 1877. With the completion of the Northern Railway to Quorn in 1880 and later to Hawker grain was also shipped from Port Augusta. Thus Port Augusta became the third major port of the colony and retained that prominence for many years. One indication of that is the port only closed in 1974. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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