Beachport Railway Station in the South East of South Australia. This was the terminus of a spur lien from Mt Gambier to Beachport. It is now the bowling club rooms in Beachport. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Beachport Railway Station in the South East of South Australia. This was the terminus of a spur lien from Mt Gambier to Beachport. It is now the bowling club rooms in Beachport. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Rivoli Bay/Beachport. Beachport is located on an isthmus on Rivoli Bay with the sea on two sides and Lake George behind it. The Beachport jetty is the second longest in SA. "The Old Wool & Grain Store" is now the National Trust museum. The origins of Beachport go back to the 1830s when like Encounter Bay it was a periodic whaling camp. In 1844 Governor Grey and his exploration party landed here. The group described Rivoli Bay as the best anchorage between Encounter Bay and Portland and in 1845 the government established Greytown (later called Southend) as the port on the southern end of Rivoli Bay (and Robetown on Guichen Bay.) Naval surveys in 1860 added Port MacDonnell and Kingston as South East ports. After talk of secession by the South East to Portland and the Western districts of Victoria in 1861, the SA government considered proposals for more investment in the South East. This appeased the secessionists. But it was 1870 before George Goyder, the Surveyor General conducted a survey of new infrastructure in the South East. The British Admiralty did a coastal survey in the same year, and following these two reports the government eventually decided to create a port at the northern end of Rivoli Bay. Greytown, on the southern end of the Bay, had been unsuccessful as a port as it did not provide a safe anchorage for ships and in 1876 twenty seven people perished in one shipwreck near Greytown. One week later in 1876 the government established Kingston (on Lacepede Bay) and Beachport on Rivoli Bay as declared ports. Beachport was named after the Secretary for the Colonies, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Town allotments were sold in 1878 and the first structure in the town was the new lighthouse on Penguin Island adjacent to the town. The railway from Millicent to Beachport opened in 1878 too and work started on the jetty. The contract was let for the 4,000 feet (1,220 m) long jetty for £23,000. Half way through the government terminated the contract and took over the work itself. The contractors only received £10,000 for their work. (These days the jetty has been shortened to 2,536 feet (773 m). Some of the first buildings in the town were the School (1881), the Hotel (1879-80), the Institute Reading Room (1882), the Institute (1884) and the Wool and Grain Store (1880). The Customs services were started in 1878. By 1897 Beachport was connected to Adelaide by train and the town tried to appeal to tourists. Bathing was segregated well into the 20th century with men allowed to swim one side of the jetty and women the other! Despite all the government money Beachport was never one of the top South East ports in terms of tonnage handled. All ports declined dramatically for coastal shipping in the 1930s and a government report of 1936 suggested the closing of the railway but this did not happen until the 1953 when the other South East rail lines were broadened to 5 foot 3 inch gauge. In recent years one of the major employers of the town has been the lobster fishing fleet. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-12-09 06:11:17 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | Vivicam4000 , Vivitar |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/190) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.7 |