Kingston South East
Kingston
So named after Sir George Strickland Kingston, South Australian Deputy Surveyor General. The name was later exparded to Kingston South East to avoid confusion with Kingston-on-Murray. It is at the southern end of the Coorong.
Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.137.
Maria Creek
Later known as Port Caroline, it finally was called Kingston South East
after surveyor George Strickland Kingston; just south of the Coorong.
Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely,Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.340.
Town of Thurk
Formed in 1918 by the amalgamation of Kingston, Lacepede and Rosetown;
renamed Kingston South East in 1940, about 300 km south east of Adelaide.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, pp. 157-8
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Cape Bernouilli
Now called Cape Jaffa about 25 km north of Robe.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892 ,p. 166.
Lacepede
A forgotten township which was amalgamated in 1918 with Kingston and Rosetown to form the Town of Thurk. In 1940 this name was changed to Kingston and "South East" was added to distinguish it from Kingston on the Murray ; about 300km south east of Adelaide.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, p.157-8
Rosetown
A forgotten village which was amalgamated in 1918 with Kingston and Lacepede
to form the Town of Thurk. In 1940 this was changed to Kingston and "South
East" was added to distinguish it from Kingston on the Murray; about
300 km south east of Adelaide.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara, The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places, Melbourne, 1992, pp.157-8.
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