Edthburgh. Yorke Peninsula. The headmaster's residence built by the government in 1877 for the opening of the first Edithburgh School next door to it. On the esplanade facing St Vincents Gulf. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Edthburgh. Yorke Peninsula. The headmaster's residence built by the government in 1877 for the opening of the first Edithburgh School next door to it. On the esplanade facing St Vincents Gulf. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Edithburgh.The first land for farmers was surveyed in 1869 between Edithburgh and Warooka. Most of the rest of Yorke Peninsula was surveyed between 1872 and 1874. The government town for the Troubridge Agricultural Area in the 1869 Strangways Act was named after the wife of the governor of the time, Edith Fergusson. It is another grid town half encircled by parklands. It grew quickly as the major port of lower Yorke Peninsula handling both wheat and salt. From the 1890s it received cargoes of superphosphate for the wheat farmers following the work of Custance and Lawrie at Roseworthy Agricultural College on superphosphate. This improved wheat yields, almost doubling them with its application. The life blood of the town was the port. A steamer service to Port Adelaide operated from the early 1870s and took only a day, or night. Cricket matches against Adelaide teams were held in Edithburgh in summer months; boys sailed across from Our Boys Institute (a forerunner of the YMCA) for holiday camps; and holiday makers sailed from Adelaide to escape the summer heatwaves. Apart from the two hotels, Edithburgh had Sultana Guest House built in 1884 by Julius Gottschalck. It was the largest in the colony with over 50 rooms. After the depression of the 1890s it became a boarding house for workers in the salt industry and finally it became self-contained holiday flats. One famous resident of Sultana House was Christian Reimers, a friend of the famous composer Robert Schumann. Reimers retired to Sultana House before eventually moving to Adelaide. Near Edithburgh are the Troubridge Shoals which necessitated a light house to make it safe for shipping. It opened in 1856. In 1904 the Ethel was shipwrecked during a storm on the coast south of Edithburgh. The last and most significant shipwreck was the Clan Ranald which sank in January 1909. 40 lives were lost and only 24 seamen were saved. The disaster happened after the introduction of the White Australia Policy thus the British Officers were buried in the main part of the Edithburgh cemetery and the Philippino and Indian crew were buried in an unmarked mass grave at the rear of the cemetery. The 20 surviving and injured seamen were immediately deported as they contravened the White Australia Policy. After this the federal government had to change the act to allow injured and wrecked seamen to recover before being deported! A plaque now names the Asian seamen buried in Edithburgh.Edithburgh water tower art is amongst the best in South Australia. It was completed in March 2021 by local artist Mike Makatron and Conrad Bizjak & Dylan Butler. The concept for the high water tower began with some underwater photography around the Edithburgh jetty which showed a variety of colourful coral as well as a Striped Pyjama Squid, a Cuttlefish and some magnificent Leafy Sea Dragons. The artists decided to contrast the underwater world with the sunny sky and a sunrise for the top of the water tower. Flying in the sky are a White Bellied Sea Eagle and the endangered Far Eastern Curlew near Troubridge Island lighthouse which is just off the coast from Edithburgh. The construction of the lighthouse is dated in the water tower art – 1856. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-09-12 14:54:39 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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