Myponga

History

Before British colonisation of South Australia, the Kaurna people occupied the land from the Adelaide plains and southwards down western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, including Myponga. The Kaurna name for the area was Maitpungga. Geoff Manning reports that "according to H.C. Talbot it is derived from the Aboriginal word miappunga – 'divorced wife'", and Norman Tindale concluded that it probably meant "vegetable food place, from [mai] and [pangkara], a term applied to swamps & lagoons". However linguist Rob Amery of the University of Adelaide and Kaurna educator Jack Buckskin concluded that it was just a name and does not have a literal translation. One of the first pioneer families to settle the area, was the family of Con Polden and Mary Windsor (c.1840) along with their children from Wiltshire in South West England. Myponga began as a settlement as a series of land purchases on section 521 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Myponga in 1858. In 1939, a sub-division was laid out on part of Section 521. Boundaries for the locality were created on 5 August 1999 for the "long established name."

Most-observed species

• New Holland Honeyeater

  Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  4,605
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  4,522
• Red Wattlebird

  Anthochaera carunculata (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  4,436
• Superb Fairywren

  Malurus cyaneus (Ellis, 1782) · Aves
  3,858
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  3,499
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  3,484
• Crimson Rosella

  Platycercus elegans (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  2,875
• Little Raven

  Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 · Aves
  2,853

Most recent

• M 3 — 2022-03-29
  3 km ESE of Macclesfield, Australia
• M 4 — 2022-03-05
  3 km SW of Mount Barker, Australia
• M 3.2 — 2018-08-08
  11 km WNW of Mannum, Australia
• M 3.9 — 2017-02-01
  9 km NW of Murray Bridge, Australia
• M 3.3 — 2011-10-18
  3 km ESE of Hawthorndene, Australia
• M 3.8 — 2010-04-16
  2 km N of Macclesfield, Australia