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Aboriginal Australians of various nations or tribes have lived in South Australia for at least thirty thousand years, while British colonists arrived in the 19th century to establish a free colony. The South Australia Act, 1834 created the Province of South Australia, built according to the principles of systematic colonisation, with no convict ...
A settlement was started at Kingscote, at Reeves Point on Kangaroo Island (now a heritage-listed site, as the earliest formal European settlement in South Australia), [35] on 27 July 1836, but this was soon abandoned in favour of a settlement on the mainland.
The South Australia Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4.c. 95), or Foundation Act 1834 and also known as the South Australian Colonization Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for the settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 degrees east and 141 degrees of east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 degrees south latitude ...
State Library of South Australia. Virtually every passenger list for the 3000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851, plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc). Ing, Heidi (2020). South Australia's First Expedition: three generations of settler-colonial social mobility .
The South Australia Act 1834 described the land as "waste" and "uninhabited", [1] but unlike other colonies in Australia, the British settlement of South Australia did not assume the principle of terra nullius (Latin for nobody's land) when the colonists originally arrived.
1627: First recorded European sighting of the South Australian coast. 1802: South Australian coastline mapped by Matthew Flinders und Nicolas Baudin. 1802 (Circa): Unofficial settlement of Kangaroo Island by sealers. 1830: Captain Charles Sturt travels to the mouth of the Murray River in a whale boat.
The only settlement on the north banks of the Murray, around 22 miles (35 km) upstream from New Era, this settlement of 60 men and their families was subject to an early split; the original trustees and chairman leaving. [13] George Mitchell was the new chairman.
The South Australia Act 1834 legislated for the establishment of a settlement in South Australia, but did not provide specific directions with regard to how the Province of South Australia was to be founded, which these Letters Patent, formulated by the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, supplied.