Place Names Register Extract
Adelaide River
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Adelaide River |
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| Type Designation | Stream |
| Place Id | 10152 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -12° 13' S (Decimal degrees -12.2209) | |
| Longitude: 131° 13' E (Decimal degrees 131.2249) | |
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| Coomalie Creek | |
| Daly | |
| Hotham | |
| Koolpinyah | |
| Manton | |
| Middle Point | |
| Robin Falls | |
| Tipperary | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Coomalie Community Council | |
| History/Origin | Stokes in his journal "Discoveries in Australia, Vol 1" published in 1846 writes following the return of Mr Fitmaurice to the "Beagle":- "There was no difficulty in finding a name for a river which fell into Clarence Strait; it was at once, therefore, honoured with that of Adelaide, after her most gracious Majesty the Queen Dowager." Clarence Strait having been named by the Stokes after William IV, Duke of Clarence, her husband. SW Herbert in his unpublished manuscript "Reminiscences of life in the NT, 1870-1873" (SAA996) having climbed Mount Carr (in the vicinity of the current township of Adelaide River) states:- "This river, on the coast, was discovered by Mr Fitmaurice, who was sent on a boating expedition along the coast by Commander L Stokes of the Admiralty surveying ship "Beagle" in 1839, and was named in the memory of Queen Adelaide." (pg 58) |
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