Clinton

History

The Hundred of Clinton was proclaimed on 12 June 1862 over land with an area of . The port was surveyed in 1862, with a jetty being erected in 1863. Surveys and closer settlement by farmers soon followed, along with land clearing of the mallee woodland. The first European occupiers were leaseholder pastoralists. In 1854 in the northern parts of the Hundred of Clinton, W. & A. Rogers leased at an annual rental of ten shillings per square mile. In 1860, near the centre of the Hundred, T. & W. Day leased . This was an important and busy port in the 1860s and 70s, being a transfer point for goods and passengers travelling between Port Adelaide and the copper mines at Wallaroo and Moonta. That was despite the shallowness of the beach, which closed the port to larger vessels during low tide. On 28 November 1878, the District Council of Clinton was established. Clinton began a gradual decline after 1878 when the railway between Wallaroo and Adelaide was completed. The jetty was dismantled in 1916. Boundaries for the locality were created on 27 May 1999 for the "long established name." The name Port Clinton was reported in 2013 as being a "variant" name and as being the "incorrect name for town."

Most-observed species

• Silver Gull

  Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) · Aves
  1,004
• Singing Honeyeater

  Gavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  785
• Red-necked Stint

  Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) · Aves
  699
• Pacific Gull

  Larus pacificus Latham, 1801 · Aves
  688
• Great Crested Tern

  Thalasseus bergii (M.H.K.Lichtenstein, 1823) · Aves
  673
• Caspian Tern

  Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) · Aves
  630
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  598
• Welcome Swallow

  Hirundo neoxena Gould, 1842 · Aves
  558

Most recent

• M 4.4 — 2020-05-14
  15 km WSW of Burra, Australia
• M 3.1 — 2008-12-04
  17 km ESE of Crystal Brook, Australia
• M 2.6 — 2004-08-02
  30 km N of Clare, Australia
• M 2.7 — 2004-08-02
  29 km N of Clare, Australia
• M 2.9 — 2003-05-02
  26 km ENE of Kadina, Australia