Early settlement in South Australia [microform] / by W.K. Hancock

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Hancock, W. K. (William Keith), 1898-1988
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Early Settlement in South  

Australia  

by W. K. HANCOCK  

Adelaide is celebrating this year the centenary of organized settlement in South Australia, and the  

Geographical Magazine has much pleasure in presenting to its readers the following record of  

those early days. The reproductions of contemporary prints show that among the founders of South  

Australia there were artists of no mean quality. Professor Hancock, an Australian by birth, was  

formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Adelaide and now holds the Chair of  

History at Birmingham University. He also wrote the volume on Australia in Messrs Benn's  

Modern World Series  

“Pray where is this South Australia?”  

noble lord asked disdainfully, and bored  

Lord Chancellor answered, “Somewhere  

near Botany Bay”. In those days, little  

more than century ago, thousand miles  

or so hardly seemed to matter in remote  

Australia, country to which aristocratic  

society was contemptuously indifferent.  

Middle-class society, however, was already  

beginning to take notice. In the late  

’twenties and early ’thirties hard-headed  

manufacturers were following with eager  

attention the expansion of Australian wool  

production, which was destined within  

little more than ten years to outstrip the  

imposing lead established by Germany’s  

flocks. By 1830 New South Wales already  

had an important place on Bradford’s  

maps. And then, all of sudden, South  

Australia claimed the attention of wider  

circle. Politicians, philanthropists, specu-  

lators, political economists and editors dis-  

covered it as theme of absorbing interest.  

For this discovery two unusual men were  

chiefly responsible—one of them man of  

action, the other man of theory. The  

man of action was Charles Sturt, the  

bravest and gentlest of Australian ex-  

plorers. At time when the squatters,  

Australia’s adventurous flock-masters, were  

already competing with each other in the  

race for ‘better country farther out’, Sturt,  

by brilliant and heroic journey, solved the  

most baffling geographical riddle of Eastern  

Australia. To Lake Alexandrina in the  

present State of South Australia he traced  

the outflow of the vast Murray-Darling  

river system, which extends as far north as  

the Queensland border. He reported his  

discovery at Sydney in May 1830, and by  

the end of the year people in London were  

already talking about it, although the  

Governor of New South Wales saw fit to  

withhold official notification of it until  

April 1831. It sometimes happens that  

reticence produces stronger impact on  

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