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Ladi) Blanche, Lake. — Named by J. McKinlay, December 31st. 

 1861. after Lady Blanche MacDomiell. Previously visited by Sturt 

 in 1845, who camped near it and called it Lake Lipson, after 

 Thos. Lipson. harbormaster. 



Lake £'///>.— Discovered by Eyre, the explorer, 1839-40. Named 

 by Governf)r Gawler. 



" Malcolm Piimt. — Vide Gazette, October 22nd, 1840. Surveyed 

 by Frome. Named after Neil Malcolm, who took up the land 

 there (special survey) in 1840. Surveyed by Col. Frome (Gazette, 

 October 22nd, 1840). 



Malcolm Point. — Named by Flinders, January 17th, 1802, in 

 honor of Captain Pulteney, of the navy. 



Marsden Pom/.— Named by Flinders, March 21st, 1802, after 

 the second secretary of the Admiralty. 



Maria Creek. — So named because of the wreck of the brigantine 

 Maria, 36 tons, of Hobart, in Lacepede Bay, during Jidy, 1840. 

 There were twenty-six passengers, some of whom were drowned, 

 and the rest treacherously murdered by the blacks while on their 

 way to the Encounter Bay whaling-station. Major O'Halloran 

 was sent to punisii the natives ; two of the most ferocious were 

 hung at Pilgaru, where the mutilated bodies of Feveral unfortunate 

 Adctims were found. Vide Register, August 15th, 1840, and 

 Government Gazette, September 10th, 1840. 



McLaren Vale. — Named by David McLaren, manager of the 

 South Australian ('ompany, as sviccessor to S. Stephens, when on 

 a trip to Happy Valley, Hurtle Yale Sec, in 1837. 



McGiatKs Flat. — Locality of native wells on the margin of the 

 Coorong, Avhere George McGrath was murdered, June 3rd. 1842, 

 when on a trip to Portland Bay with two Kuropeans and four 

 natives, who were said to have been forced to go beyond their 

 tribal boundary line. The ringleader, Wirra Maldira, was cap- 

 tured, and was executed in Adelaide Gaol on March 29th, 1845. 

 Given as '■ Werd-Maldara " in Hoothby's Returns. 



Mount Muirhead. — Named by Mr. Chas. Bonney, in 1838-9, 

 after one of the party who accompanied him from Portland Bay to 

 Adelaide. 



Macclesjield. — Named by F. Davenport. 1840, after his native 

 town in England. Native name, " Kanoooarinilla." 



Memorij Cove. — It was so called by Flinders in memory of a sad 

 catastrophe which occurred there on Sunday evening, Febiuary 

 21-*t. 1802, he having lost two officers (Messrs. Thistle and Taylor) 

 and six men by the upsetting of a boat, in which they had gone to 

 find an anchorage. Flinders left an engraved copper plate affixed to 

 a stout post at this cove informing future visitors of the disaster. 

 A fac simile of three portions (>f the plate, now in the museum, 

 brought to light by Dr. E. C. Stirling, F.R.S., imder circumstances 

 described by him in a paper read before the Royal Society of S.A.. 

 November 3rd, 1892, entitled " A Forgotten Relic of Australian 



