Postcode(s) 5501 Port Gawler Two Wells Postal code 5501 Lga Adelaide Plains Council | State electorate(s) Taylor Buckland Park Buckland Park Federal division Division of Wakefield | |
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Location 43 km (27 mi) N of Adelaide
35 km (22 mi) w of Gawler
11 km (7 mi) SW of Two Wells | ||
Port Gawler is a locality and former port on Gulf St Vincent on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia. Port Gawler is located 43 kilometres (27 mi) north west of Adelaide in the Adelaide Plains Council local government area at the mouth of the Gawler River.
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Map of Port Gawler SA 5501, Australia
Port Gawler was named in 1867 and a government town surveyed around 1869, but was officially declared to have ceased to exist on 23 June 1960. The boundaries for the modern locality were created for the long established name in June 1997, incorporating both the former government town and the private subdivision of Milner.
Hundred of Port Gawler
The Hundred of Port Gawler is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the central Adelaide Plains in South Australia and bounded on the south by the Gawler River. It is centred on the town of Two Wells with the locality of Port Gawler at the south western corner of its boundary. It is one of the eight hundreds of the County of Gawler. It was named in 1851 by Governor Henry Young either directly or indirectly after the former Governor George Gawler.
The following localities and towns of the Adelaide Plains Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Port Gawler: