What former Governor of New Zealand proclaimed and named one of the 49 South Australian counties after an early Australian explorer?
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County of Sturt The County of Sturt is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in the 1840s and named for early Australian explorer, Charles Sturt. It stretches from the Bremer River and eastern slopes of the Adelaide Hills at Nairne and Tungkillo to the Murray River in the east and in the south, the portion of Lake Alexandrina north of a line from Point Sturt to Pomanda Island. This includes the west-of-river parts of the contemporary local government areas of the Mid Murray Council and Murray Bridge City.
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George Grey Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer. By political philosophy a Gladstonian liberal and Georgist, Grey eschewed the class system for the prosaic life of Auckland's new governance he helped to establish.
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Charles Tyers Captain Charles James Tyers RN FRSV (13 September 1806–20 September 1870) was a 19th-century Australian surveyor and explorer, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Portland (1841) and Gippsland (1844).
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Nelson, New Zealand Nelson (Māori: Whakatū ) is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay. Nelson is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-oldest settled city in New Zealand, It was established in 1841 and was proclaimed a city by royal charter in 1858.
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John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908) was a British aristocrat and statesman who served as the first Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902; he was previously Governor of Victoria from 1889 to 1895. He is best known as Lord Hopetoun, his title from 1873 to 1902.
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Grey County, New Zealand Grey County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.
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McLaren Vale McLaren Vale is a wine region approximately 35 km south of Adelaide in South Australia. It is internationally renowned for the wines it produces. The region was named after either David McLaren, the Colonial Manager of the South Australia Company or John McLaren (unrelated) who surveyed the area in 1839. Among the first settlers to the region in late 1839, were two English farmers from Devon, William Colton and Charles Thomas Hewett. William Colton established the Daringa Farm and Charles Thomas Hewett established Oxenberry Farm. Both men would be prominent in the early days of McLaren Vale.
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Ashley County, New Zealand Ashley County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.
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John Hill (explorer) John Hill (c.1810 – 11 August 1860) was an English explorer of South Australia and part of the European exploration of Australia. Hill was the first European to discover and traverse the Clare Valley.
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Flinders Island (South Australia) Flinders Island is an island in the Investigator Group off the coast of South Australia. It was named by Matthew Flinders after his younger brother Samuel Flinders, the second lieutenant on "HMS Investigator" in 1802. It is part of the Investigator Group Important Bird Area. The island has been subject to diamond exploration following the discovery of a wide range of kimberlite indicator minerals there. These minerals include chromite, pyrope, diopside, picroilmenite, forsterite, orthopyroxene, as well as small diamonds.
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Benjamin Herschel Babbage Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 – 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B. Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage".
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County of Heytesbury The County of Heytesbury is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. The County is in the Western District of Victoria bounded by the Gellibrand River in the east and the Hopkins River in the west. In the north the County was bounded approximately by the existing road, now the Princes Highway. Larger towns include Camperdown and Cobden. The County was proclaimed in 1849.
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Nepean Bay Nepean Bay is a bay located on the north-east coast of Kangaroo Island in the Australian state of South Australia about 130 km south-south-west of Adelaide. It was named by the British navigator, Matthew Flinders, after Sir Evan Nepean on 21 March 1802.
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County of Manchester County of Manchester is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land both located in the north-east of Eyre Peninsula and to the peninsula's north. It was proclaimed in 1891 and named after George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester who was the father-in-law of the Rt Hon. Earl of Kintore GCMG, the Governor of South Australia at the time.
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New Zealand State Highway 61 State Highway 61 (SH 61) is a former New Zealand state highway in the Tasman Region of the South Island. It links the coastal town of Motueka with SH 6, the main route to the South Island's West Coast. Along with several other state highways, its status was revoked at the beginning of the 1990s. The route is now usually referred to as the Motueka Valley Highway.
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Wellington County, New South Wales Wellington County is a county in New South Wales, Australia, which was one of the original Nineteen Counties. The town of Wellington is near the north-eastern edge. The Bell River is the boundary to the west, and the Cudgegong River to the north. It includes land on both sides of the Macquarie River.
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Clive M. Hambidge Clive Melville Hambidge (10 May 1888 – 4 September 1950) was a surveyor in the State of South Australia, remembered as a long-serving Surveyor General.
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Mount Grey / Maukatere Mount Grey / Maukatere is a 934 m mountain 15 km west of Amberley in New Zealand. Mount Grey is named after Sir George Grey, the governor and Premier between 1845 and 1879. The Maori name for the mountain was Maukatere, which means "floating mountain", as they believed spirits of the dead left from the summit on the long journey to Cape Reinga. In 1998, as a result of the settling of the Ngai Tahu Treaty claim, the mountain officially became Mount Grey / Maukatere.
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Hundred of Monarto The Hundred of Monarto is a cadastral unit of hundred, the centre of which lies about 47 km east southeast of Adelaide in South Australia and about 19 km west of the Murray River. One of the ten hundreds of the County of Sturt, it is bounded on the west by the Bremer River, with the north west corner being set at the point where Mount Barker Creek merges with the river. It was named in 1847 by Governor Frederick Robe after "Queen Monarto", an aboriginal woman who lived at the time in the area. According to John Wrathall Bull, in his writings on early South Australia history, she was the "lubra " (partner) of aboriginal tribal leader "King John", whose tribe resided "on the banks of the Murray" at the time.
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Williams Island (South Australia) Williams Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located off the south coast of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula approximately 34 km south-east of Port Lincoln. It was named by Matthew Flinders for Robert Williams who subsequently lost his life along with seven other crew in the capsize of a cutter launched from the HM Sloop "Investigator" to search for water on 21 February 1802. Since 2004, the island has been part of the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.
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Keith Holyoake Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ;11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983) was the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving for a brief period in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and also the 13th Governor-General of New Zealand, serving from 1977 to 1980. He is the only person to have held both positions.
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Marigold Southey Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Southey, Lady Southey {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (née Myer ; born 2 May 1928) is an Australian philanthropist, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006.