476 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 



(Princess Victoria, heir to the throne of England), Wajnnouth- 

 street (Henry Waymouth. Esq.), Wakefield-street (Daniel Wake- 

 field), Ward-street (H. G. Ward. M. P.), Wellington-square (Duke 

 of Wellington), Wright-street (John Wright, Esq., Colonisation 

 Commissioner), Whitmore-square (W. Woolryche Whitmore, M.P., 

 Colonisation Commissioner). 



SCHEDULE OF PLACES, 



Showing by Whom Discovered, Dates when First Visited, After 



Whom Xamed, and Other Statements. 



Australia. — The Spanish navigator, de Quiros, in 1606, called 

 this great southern continent " Terra Australis del Espirito Santo." 

 The Dutch Government, in 1644, gave it the name of New Hol- 

 land. Flinders, in his journal of 1801-8, suggested the name 

 Australia. Through the efforts of the Colonisation Commissioners, 

 the name South Australia became legally connected with this 

 province by Act 95 of William IV., dated August 15th, 1834. 



Adelaide. — Named after the consort of William IV., by royal 

 •command. Native name, " Tarndanya." 



Altkorpe Isles. — Named by Flinders, on the 20th March, 1802. 



Antechamber ^rty.— Named by Flinders, April 7th, 1802. 



AUxandrina, Lake. — Discovered and named by Captain Sturt, 

 February 9th, 1830. 



Albert, Lake. — South of Lake Alexandrina, and connected with 

 it by a narrow arm, which escaped the notice of Captain Sturt ; 

 explored and surveyed by Colonel Frome, Surveyor-General of 

 South Australia. Named after Her Majesty's Royal Consort by 

 Governor Gawler, in Gazette September 10th. 1840. 



Augusta, Port. — This beautiful harbor was discovered in May, 

 1852, by Messrs John Grainger and A. L. Elder, they having, by 

 permisvsion of the Lieutenant-Governor, proceeded to the north end 

 of Spencer's Gulf in the Government schooner I'rt/'rt^ff. accompanied 

 by a surveyor, Mr. W^. (j. Harris. After completing the survey of 

 Port Fergusson, they proceeded vip the gulf, and about three miles 

 above Curlew Point discovered a very superior landing place due 

 west of and about seven miles distant from Mount Brown. On 

 the 14th May the Yatala was brought to anchor in the gulf abreast 

 of the new port, there and then named Port Augusta. The report 

 of Messrs. Grainger and Elder was published by command (in the 

 Government Gazette, dated June 17th, 1852) of His Excellency 

 Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, in honor of whose wife this fine 

 harbor was named. The town of Port Augusta was surveyed in 

 1854, and the first allotments were sold tm August 17th, 1854 ; the 

 town of Port Augusta West being added eleven years later. The 

 native name of the locality is " Kurdnatta," meaning, it is said, 

 " heaps of sand." 



Ardtornish. —Estate of Gregorson's, the outlawed McGregors. 

 Miss Gregorson's father was a friend of Sir W. Scott, mentioned 



