Port Pirie

Germein's Roads
Now called Port Pirie. Sir John Pirie, Lord Mayor of London, was one of the ten original directors of the South Australian Company.

Cockburn, Rodney, Nomenclature of South Australia, Adelaide, 1908, p.101.


Samuel's Creek
Named after Samuel Germein, skipper of the government schooner Waterwitch which carried stores for Edward John Eyre's expedition across the Nullarbor. Renamed Port Pirie in 1845 after the first overseas vessel to enter the port.

Farwell, George, Traveller's tracks, Melbourne, 1949, p.119.

Bonaparte Gulf
Freycinet's name for Spencers Gulf.

Scott, Ernest, Terre Napoleon a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia, London, 1910, p.70.


Compbell's Range
So named by Eyre after Robert Compbell, the Sydney merchant, Eyre says, rather vaguely, that the ranges were to the north of the Broughton. He probably referred to Mount Zion and the Bluff, just east of Port Pirie.

Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1, London, 1845, vol.1, p.37-8.


Deep Spring
Named by Eyre who gave its latitude as 33°7′; its longitude　was about 138°05′, not far from Port Pirie.

Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1, vol.1, London, 1845, pp.45-7.


Devils Glen
An abrupt gorge, several hundred feet deep, through which the Rocky River wound its course. It was named, Eyre thought aptly, by his men. About 25km due west of Port Pirie.

Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1, vol.1, London, 1845, p.42-3.


Flinders Lake
An alternative name for Franklin Harbour on the western shore of Spencer's Gulph, Spencer Gulf.

Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.121.


Golfe Bonaparte
Baudin's name for Spencer Gulf.

Horner, Frank, French reconnaissance : Baudin in Australia 1801-1803, Melbourne, 1987, p.225.


Myall Ponds
Named by Eyre who placed them approximately at 32° 51' and 138° 00'. It may have been Baroota Reservoir, about 30 km north of Port Pirie.

Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1, vol.1, London, 1845, pp.47-8.


Red Banks
Now called Caltowie, about 40 km east of Port Pirie.

Mincham Hans, The story of the Flinders Ranges, Adelaide : Rigby, 1964, p.140.

Yarrowie
Founded in 1872 and renamed Appila in 1941, about 40 km north east of Port Pirie.

Mincham Hans, The story of the Flinders Ranges, Adelaide Rigby, 1964, p.235.