| District Council of Portland Estate South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 34°51′05″S138°30′28″E / 34.8514°S 138.5077°E Coordinates: 34°51′05″S138°30′28″E / 34.8514°S 138.5077°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1859 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1884 | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Portland Estate was a local government area of South Australia established in 1859 and abolished in 1884. It was seated at the Portland Estate subdivision, immediately south of the modern township of Port Adelaide. [1]
The council was proclaimed on 15 September 1859. [2] [3] It included sections 1128 through 1131 on the boundary of the hundreds of Hundred of Port Adelaide and Hundred of Yatala. This being the land south of the Tam O'Shanter Creek and east of the Old Port Reach (Port Creek), stretching eastwards to modern Commercial Road and southwards to Webb Street, the modern boundary of Port Adelaide and Queenstown [2]
The council was amalgamated in to the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide on 4 December 1884.
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The Hundred of Yatala is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia covering much of the Adelaide metropolitan area north of the River Torrens. It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide stretching from the Torrens in the south to the Little Para River in the north; and spanning from the coast in the west to the Adelaide foothills in the east. It is roughly bisected from east to west by Dry Creek. It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe, Yatala being likely derived from 'yartala', an indigenous word referring to the flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain.
The Hundred of Port Adelaide is a cadastral hundred covering the vicinity of Port Adelaide, Lefevre Peninsula and the coast of the central Adelaide Plains south of Gawler River and west of Port Wakefield Road. It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide and was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe.
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Current Name: Port Adelaide (portion); Alternative Name: Port Land Estate; Other Details: Private subdivision of sections 1129/30, by Levi and Watts in the 1850s. Portland name as suburb formally submitted by City of Port Adelaide at council meeting held on 10 May 1945 but included into Port Adelaide following recommendation by Nomenclature Committee to avoid confusion with locality in Victoria.
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