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The Captain
John Hindmarsh has been the first Governor of South Australia.
He governed this part of Australia from December 1836 to July
1838. Hindmarsh came in South Australia in 1836 with a group of
ships; he brought the first British for the colony for
settlement. When they arrived, John Hindmarsh sent the Colonel
William Light and his surveyors steam to find a good place which
could be the capital city of the new colony. Colonel Light chose
as capital city, Adelaide. On the 28 December 1836, John
Hindmarsh read under the Old Gum Tree the proclamation of the
colony creation. Hindmarsh retired in Hove, England. He died in
1860 and was buried in Hove, in the grounds of St Andrews
church. There were some places named after Captain John
Hindmarsh as the Hindmarsh Square in Adelaide, Hindmarsh Island
near Murray mouth and Hindmarsh Drive in Canberra. |
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