Point Turton

History

The town was named by a marine surveyor, Captain John Hutchinson, as a commemoration of a double wedding of two daughters of the then Governor of South Australia, Dominick Daly, at Government House. In August 1866, Daly's youngest daughter, artist Caroline Louisa Daly, married Henry Hobhouse Turton, manager of the Savings Bank of South Australia, while the eldest daughter, Joanna, married John Souttar, Manager of the Bank of Adelaide. The jetty at Point Turton was built in 1876 to ship out the local barley and stone. The quarrying of stone ended in 19173.

Most-observed species

• Little Raven

  Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 · Aves
  122
• Banjo Shark

  Trygonorrhina dumerilii (Castelnau, 1873) · Elasmobranchii
  90
• Singing Honeyeater

  Gavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  67
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  66
• Silver Gull

  Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) · Aves
  66
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  62
• Australian Pelican

  Pelecanus conspicillatus Temminck, 1824 · Aves
  60
• Klunzinger's Bullseye

  Pempheris klunzingeri McCulloch, 1911 · Animalia
  59

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2006-07-17
  55 km S of Cowell, Australia
• M 2.9 — 2004-11-25
  18 km W of Kingscote, Australia