| Swanport South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Swanport | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°09′11″S139°18′43″E / 35.153°S 139.312°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 157 (SAL 2021) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5253 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Rural City of Murray Bridge | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Hammond | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates [2] | ||||||||||||||
Swanport, also formerly known as Thompson's Crossing and Thomson's Landing, is a suburban satellite locality of Murray Bridge in South Australia on the west (right) bank of the Murray River adjacent to Swanport Bridge. [2] Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of semi-urban land immediately south of the South Eastern Freeway adjacent to the Swanport Bridge, which is the main road freight route over the Murray. [2] It is named for the docking place on the west bank of the Murray which was home to "numerous swans" [2] and also known as Thomson's Landing. [3]
Before British colonisation, the area around Swanport was home to a significant population of Ngarrindjeri people. In 1911, a very large Ngarrindjeri burial ground containing the remains of over a hundred people was unearthed during land reclamation operations at Swanport. Most of the bones were subsequently transported to the Adelaide Museum. [4] [5] [6]
