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Boston is a locality on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia, situated in the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.It consists of a coastal section immediately north of Port Lincoln and a broader area inland; while it is residential along the coast, much of the locality remains semi-rural. [2]
Boston Island (Barngarla: Goorilyali [1]: 78 ) is a 960-hectare (2,400-acre) privately owned island in Boston Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia.It has been primarily used for grazing sheep and was also once the location of a proposed township called Kerrillyilla at the southern end of the island.
Port Lincoln is a city on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. Known as Galinyala by the traditional owners , the Barngarla people , it is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf .
Lindsay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and emigrated to South Australia on HMS Buffalo arriving in December 1836 in company with Governor Hindmarsh, James Hurtle Fisher (the Resident Commissioner), Osmond Gilles (Treasurer), and the Rev. C. B. Howard (Colonial Chaplain), and was present at the proclamation of the province under the historic gum tree at Glenelg.
Point Boston is a locality in the Eyre and Western Region of South Australia, situated within the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.It was formally established on 15 October 2009, when it was separated from North Shields; it is named after the geographical feature, which was named by Matthew Flinders in 1802.
The history of South Australia includes the history of the Australian state of South Australia since Federation in 1901, and the area's preceding Indigenous and British colonial societies. Aboriginal Australians of various nations or tribes have lived in South Australia for at least thirty thousand years, while British colonists arrived in the ...
South Australia 1916 Griffith: New South Wales 1917 Quilpie: Queensland 1919 Yerrinbool: New South Wales 1920 Port Augusta: South Australia 1920 Whyalla: South Australia 1921 Monash: South Australia 1922 Tin Can Bay: Queensland Originally known as Wallu. [27] 1923 Mount Isa: Queensland 1924 Onslow: Western Australia Moved from Old Onslow. 1924 ...
Torrens was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 May 1812. [4] [5] He was the only surviving son [6] of Robert Torrens FRS and his first wife Charity Herbert née Chute. [7]His father had this marriage nullified and in 1819 married again, to Esther Serle, an English heiress, and had his three children rebaptised to give them a form of legitimacy, [2] Robert Richard's birth year being reset to 1814.