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The border between Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, as marked on an 1883 map showing Victoria's western border is further to the west than that of New South Wales. Doubts as to the accuracy of the Wade-White line grew with the availability of better astronomical equipment and the advent of the telegraph.
Early Victoria settlers, on the other hand, were almost entirely English or Gaelic speakers from Great Britain and Ireland. As a result of South Australia's early German connection, a feeling of resentment was held towards the state during the First World War, a feeling which still exists, albeit on a much less intense level, today. [citation ...
South Australia: Bannon, Arnold, Brown, Olsen: Ngarrindjeri people, Tom & Wendy Chapman, Michael Armitage, Robert Tickner, Ian McLachlan, John von Doussa: Building of a road bridge at Goolwa, linking Hindmarsh Island to the town. Resulted in the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission. State Bank of South Australia collapse: 1991: South Australia: Bannon
Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-86254-533-5. Foster, Robert; Nettelbeck, Amanda (2012). Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-74305-039-2. Gage, Nicola (19 May 2017). "Waterloo Bay massacre commemorated 170 years later with ...
The short Rufus River connects Lake Victoria, New South Wales with the Murray River, very close to both the current borders with Victoria to the south and South Australia to the west. [2] [3] The local Maraura people probably had their first encounter with the British when Charles Sturt travelled down the river in 1830.
The Australian frontier wars were the violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians (including both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) and mostly British settlers during the colonial period of Australia. [5] The first conflict took place several months after the landing of the First Fleet in January 1788, and the last ...
In 1861, five expeditions were sent out to search for Burke and Wills; two commissioned by the Exploration Committee, one by the Victorian government, one by the government of Queensland and one by the government of South Australia. HMCSS Victoria was sent from Melbourne to search the Gulf of Carpentaria for the missing expedition, and SS ...
South Australia–Victoria border dispute This page was last edited on 27 May 2020, at 21:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...