Port Vincent

History

The Narungga people inhabited the area prior to white settlement. The town was laid out by Adelaide solicitor L.M. Cullen in 1877, originally known as Surveyor's Point. In its early days it was a port exporting wheat, barley, wool and mallee stumps (firewood). From the first settlement in 1852 until 1877, coastal trading ketches would beach at high tide, and unload directly to farm wagons at low tide. A jetty was built into the bay in 1877, construction of a wharf began in 1901, and the original jetty was removed in 1918. Port Vincent was the main entry point for people and goods to and from the Yorke Peninsula until a good road was built from Port Wakefield in around 1949. Three major fuel companies had storage and distribution depots in the town, supplied by boat or barge from Port Adelaide.

Most-observed species

• Silver Gull

  Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) · Aves
  215
• Singing Honeyeater

  Gavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  174
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  173
• Pacific Gull

  Larus pacificus Latham, 1801 · Aves
  169
• Welcome Swallow

  Hirundo neoxena Gould, 1842 · Aves
  155
• Pied Cormorant

  Phalacrocorax varius (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  134
• Australian Pelican

  Pelecanus conspicillatus Temminck, 1824 · Aves
  126
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  126

Most recent

• M 4 — 2022-03-05
  3 km SW of Mount Barker, 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
• M 2.8 — 2007-07-08
  26 km SW of Normanville, Australia
• M 2.7 — 2003-09-22
  11 km SSE of Normanville, Australia