Finniss, South Australia

Finniss
South Australia
Finniss
Coordinates 35°22′57″S 138°49′30″E / 35.3824°S 138.8250°E / -35.3824; 138.8250Coordinates: 35°22′57″S 138°49′30″E / 35.3824°S 138.8250°E / -35.3824; 138.8250
LGA(s) Alexandrina Council
Region Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[1]
State electorate(s) Heysen
Federal Division(s) Mayo
Localities around Finniss:
Ashbourne, Mount Observation Strathalbyn, Sandergrove Nurragi
Tooperang Finniss Milang
Currency Creek Clayton Bay

Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town) is a settlement in South Australia.[2] It is on the Victor Harbor railway line just the Adelaide side of where it crosses the Finniss River.

The town was originally surveyed with the name Queen's Own Town (after the Queens Own Regiment of Foot)[3] in 1867 as the railway line was being extended from Goolwa to Strathalbyn. The name of the town was not changed to Finniss until 1940, although the adjacent railway station had already been named Finniss[4][5] in honour of an early surveyor and the first Premier of South Australia, Colonel Boyle Travers Finniss.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Fleurieu Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  3. ↑ "Queen's Own Town". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. SA0057401. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED". The Chronicle. LXXXIII, (4,728). South Australia. 1 August 1940. p. 13. Retrieved 31 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Finniss Railway Station". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. SA0024002. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Finniss". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. SA0023992. Retrieved 14 November 2014.


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