Port Misery Wharf |
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| Title : | Port Misery Wharf |
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| Source : | B 18964, Port Adelaide Collection | ||
| Date of creation : | 1920 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Remains of the Old Wharf at "Port Misery" near Port Adelaide Remains of the Port Misery Wharf near Port Adelaide. The harbour selected by William Light the colony's first Surveyor General, was the Port River. The first landing place was higher up the river than the current Inner Harbor adjacent to the Birkenhead Bridge. Here the mangroves posed less of a problem than further downstream. However larger vessels could not approach closely, and so passengers and their goods and cargo were lightered ashore. This first landing place was the Port Creek Settlement, later named 'Port Misery' by one resident and a term which later attached to the place. A landing stage and a small canal were built at this location in the hope of improving it. Two store sheds were also erected. These improvements were still inadequate if Port Adelaide was going to thrive. This situation would last only a few years: in 1839 the South Australian Company offered to build a wharf further down river. The government agreed with the additional proposal that the Company build a road to connect the Port with Adelaide. This was agreed to and the real beginnings of Port Adelaide was ready for use early in 1840, with the road ready a few months later. McLaren's wharf as it was known was at the end of Lipson Street. |
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| Period : | 1836-1851 |
| Place : | Port Adelaide |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Parsons, Ronald, Southern passages: a maritime history of South Australia Netley, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1986 Couper-Smartt, John Port Adelaide: tales from a "commodious harbour" Port Adelaide: Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum, 2003 |
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