Place Names of South Australia - C
Cooke Plains - Cootra
- Cooke Plains
- Coolanie
- Coomandook
- Coombe, Hundred of
- Coomooroo
- Coonalpyn
- Coonatto
- Coonawarra
- Coondambo
- Coongie, Lake
- Cooper Creek
- Cooper, Mount
- Coorabie
- Coorara
- Coorong
- Cootra
Cooke Plains
Nomenclature
A subdivision of section 262, Hundred of Seymour. Archibald Cooke, an early pastoralist. He died at Strathalbyn in 1883, aged 76.
General Notes
The opening of a Bible Christian Chapel is reported in the Chronicle,
2 October 1869, page 10g.
Parliamentary Paper 24/1874 shows the school being conducted in a chapel by Anna M. Chapman with 29 enrolled pupils; it opened in 1873 and closed in 1960; see
Express,
3 August 1872, page 2f,
Chronicle,
4 August 1877, page 22a.
A private school opened in a Primitive Methodist Church in 1895 - see Register,
18 July 1895, page 6e.
The death of Archibald Cooke is reported in the Register on 26 April 1883, page 5b - "He was the discoverer of water on the plains at East Wellington which bear his name..."
A sports meeting is reported in the Chronicle,
11 January 1896, page 31a,
2 January 1897, page 4e,
2 April 1898, page 11e:
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This district has been, for a lengthened period, without any facilities for educating a rapidly increasing youthful population. Some months ago this deficiency was remedied and the services of an efficient teacher was procured, who has been maintained without any State aid... Saturday sports were a genuine success... Besides the Misses Anderson and Hender, whose aid was indispensable in looking after the comfort of visitors from Murray Bridge, Ashville, Meningie and elsewhere, the following gentlemen were engaged in superintending the sports - James Hender, Archibald Anderson, Thomas Anderson, H.G. Allengame, Patrick O'Leary, James Clancy, W. Bray and others. Mr. John McFarlane of Wellington Lodge, accompanied by several friends, visited the grounds during the afternoon... In the evening an entertainment was held in Mr. Anderson's Assembly Rooms which was well patronised... Miss Emily Tauber presided at the pianoforte; a duet by Katie and Bessie Thomas evoked considerable applause and Miss Clara Tauber sang 'The Sailor's Farewell' and was heartily encored. A song, the composition of John McMahon, containing many local allusions, was immensely appreciated....
A photograph of a stump-jump plough in action is in the Observer,
2 March 1907, page 31,
8 January 1910, page 28.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Farm Implements.
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Place Names
Coolanie
Nomenclature
A school 15 km north-west of Cowell; opened in 1922 by William H.H. Connor it closed in 1942. It took its name from a local homestead.
General Notes
A photograph of the school and students is in the Chronicle,
28 July 1932, page 32.
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Place Names
Coomandook
Nomenclature
The 'Coomandook Run' (lease no. 1869) was held by John White from 1869. The 'Koomandook (sic) Run' is described in some detail in the Register of 13 August 1862, page 4b.
An Aboriginal word which H.M. Cooper, anthropologist, said means 'place of different speech', ie, a name applied by the natives of one area to an adjoining tribal area, where a different language was spoken.
General Notes
The destruction of a survey camp is reported in the Express, 16 March 1899, page 2b:
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A disastrous bushfire took place in March 1899, destroying about a third of the property of the government survey party. The fire is alleged to have been started by a boy for the purpose of burning scrub.. Mr. Krichauff, who is in charge of the party, was luckily at home at the time and he saw that
nothing but prompt measures could save anything of the camp. Accordingly, with the assistance of the cook, he set to work to pull the tents down and convey them with all dispatch to a place of safety... When the remainder of the party returned that evening a scene of desolation met their eyes. Some of them had lost their clothes, some their beds, and all had suffered some loss. Some sheep that had been grazing in the open were roasted and a heap of pumpkins close by was similarly treated, so that there was no difficulty in preparing a meal that night...
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
The Coomandook School opened in 1911, while the Coomandook Siding School opened in 1913; its name was changed to "Coomandook" in 1945. A photograph of children going to school on horseback is in the Chronicle, 26 September 1925, page 40.
The district is described in the Register,
21 November 1910, page 3g,
11, 13, 17, 19 and 23 December 1912, pages 10a, 11e, 10a, 10a and 6a,
7 July 1914, page 4d,
Observer,
11 July 1914, page 44e.
The opening of Parkin Memorial Hall is reported in the Observer,
25 February 1911, page 16b and
a photograph on,
11 March 1911, page 30B,
of the Congregational manse on
19 February 1927, page 32.
Information on the water scheme is in the Advertiser,
27 March 1915, page 19g.
Also see South Australia - Water Conservation.
"Romances in Farming" is in the Advertiser,
8 July 1932, page 19c.
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Place Names
Coombe, Hundred of
Nomenclature
E.H. Coombe, MP (1901-1917). Born at Gawler in 1858, he became a Hansard reporter for the Register in 1888; two years later he became editor of the Gawler Bunyip which he left in 1914 to edit the Labor Party's Daily Herald, where he was seen as being 'rigidly truthful, singularly just and transparently honest'. He spoke out strongly against the closure of German schools in 1916 and led public campaigns against conscription. He died at Semaphore in 1917 while addressing a United Labor Party meeting. In 1930 a commemorative marble monument was erected at Tanunda in his honour.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
Mr Coombe's obituary is in the Register,
6 April 1917, page 6f.
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Place Names
Coomooroo
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'small food seeds'.
General Notes
A public meeting is reported in the Register,
26 June 1877, page 5f.
A trip "From Gladstone to Coomooroo and Back" is reported in the Advertiser,
12 October 1877, page 6f.
Information on the district is in the Observer,
1 April 1882, page 9e,
Register,
26 June 1877, page 5f and
29 March 1882, page 6c:
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On the whole, this hundred is regarded as but thinly timbered. The pine, and in some parts wattle, may be found growing in clumps. I noticed that a very large number of fencing posts were composed of native pine... The soil is well adapted for wheat growing purposes and is composed of both light and dark loam... The most formidable evil is the scarcity of water. Of course, every farmer has made one or more dams to conserve water and many selectors have gone to the heavy expense of sinking wells... At present water carting is a daily occurrence carried on at a frightful sacrifice of precious time... It can only boast of one small township, which is Morchard situated near the old St Peter's boiling down works and about eight miles west of Orroroo...
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Water, Artesian Wells and Springs
The school opened in 1881 and closed in 1917.
An obituary of Mrs Barbara McLennan is in the Register,
27 May 1919, page 4g.
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Place Names
Coonalpyn
Nomenclature
The 'Coonalpyn Run' was established by M. Ormerod in 1876 (lease no. 1879). SA Museum records say it is derived from the Aboriginal konangalpun - 'place of mice excreta', recalling that this area has always been subject to periodical mice plagues.
General Notes
Its school opened in 1889 and closed in 1927.
An Arbor Day is reported in the Chronicle,
7 September 1895, page 12f.
Also see South Australia - Education - Arbor Days.
"A Ride for Life" from a bushfire near Garra is recounted in the Register,
9 March 1893, page 7a.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
"Problems for Solution" is in the Advertiser,
4 December 1907, page 12a,
"Making the Desert Bloom" on
17 May 1935, page 23c.
Information on water supply is in the Register,
29 August 1912, page 3b,
Observer,
7 September 1912, page 16d.
Also see South Australia - Water Conservation.
"A Story of Progress" is in The Mail, 5 April 1913, page 19a:
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One of the great obstacles in the way of development in this country has been the want of sufficient capital on the part of those who settled here... It is necessary under Coonalpyn conditions for a settler to have more capital to start with than is required in both the Pinnaroo and Loxton districts. The Coonalpyn rainfall is greater, the climate is colder, the land is sour and covered with a deal of surface growth not found in the mallee country further north and east...
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Place Names
Coonatto
Nomenclature
The 'Coonatto Run' (lease no. 74) - formerly 'Mookra (sic) Range Run' was held by Hugh Proby from July 1851. An Aboriginal word which describes a manna (food) bearing tree.
General Notes
An obituary of Frederick A. Grant is in the Register,
4, 5, 6 and 7 January 1922, pages 6h, 6g, 8g and 9d.
The school was conducted on the Coonatto run by Andrew Heron with 24 enrolled pupils in 1873 -
see Parliamentary Paper 24/1874;
it closed in 1877;
also see Advertiser,
8 July 1873, page 3c.
"Murder on the Coonatto Run" is in The Irish Harp,
1 August 1873, page 3b,
Observer,
2 August 1873, page 6e,
Chronicle,
30 August 1873, page 9f,
3 January 1874, page 10e.
Also see South Australia - Crime, Law and Punishment- Murders.
The Hundred of Coonatto is described in the Register,
23 February 1882, page 5g and
"The Wants of Coonatto" are canvassed on
29 December 1882, page 7a.
An obituary of W.H. Lock is in the Observer,
27 December 1913, page 41b.
The reminiscences of W.J. Gleeson are in the Register,
24 October 1922, page 4f.
Historical information is in the Register, 6 February 1926, page 9a:
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We called upon the manager of Coonatto, Mr. Stokes and afterwards upon Mr. Grant at the home. It is a very orderly station, everything connected with it bears the token of cleanliness and care...
Moroney's farm is discussed in the Register,
5 June 1926, page 3g.
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Place Names
Coonawarra
Nomenclature
SA Museum records say it is derived from the Aboriginal kuneia-warama - 'to light a fire', while other sources opt for 'honeysuckle rise'.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
The Coonawarra Fruit Colony is described in the Register,
23 January 1899, page 6c,
The Critic,
18 March 1899, page 11 (photographs),
Chronicle,
24 June 1899, page 21a,
Register,
13 January 1900, page 7a,
29 January 1902, page 6e; also see
Advertiser,
21 June 1899, page 7a,
Chronicle,
23 February 1901, page 30e,
24 October 1903, page 8,
Advertiser,
28 April 1904, page 9a,
3 November 1911, page 12e.
The 1903 vintage is reported upon in the Register,
1 May 1903, page 6d,
Observer,
9 May 1903, page 13c.
Information on and a photograph of the laying of the foundation stone of the Methodist Church is in the Observer,
27 August 1910, page 15a,
3 September 1910, page 31.
An obituary of James Alexander is in the Observer,
4 January 1919, page 33b,
of Joseph Darwent on 21 August 1926, page 11a.
A Show is reported in the Chronicle,
23 March 1929, page 53.
Also see South Australia - Agricultural, Floricultural & Horticultural Shows
"Thriving Orchards at Coonawarra" is in the Observer,
16 November 1929, page 4d.
Also see South Australia - Industries
- Rural, Primary and Secondary - Fruit and Vegetables.
"Tobacco Culture" is in the Advertiser,
24 March 1931, page 7a-d:
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Indicating the increased interest being taken in tobacco culture, 150 people seeking information have either interviewed or written the Department of Agriculture officials during the last few weeks.... A very satisfactory leaf was being grown here and it would be in keen demand for many years... (Advertiser, 24 March 1931, page 7 - includes a photograph of an experimental plot on Redman Brothers property - 'They have filled their curing barn with leaf and intend to extend the area next year.')
A photograph of a Queen competition is in the Chronicle,
9 August 1934, page 36.
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Place Names
Coondambo
Nomenclature
A railway siding on the Trans-Australia line 54 km east of Kingyoona and a post office opened in November 1882 and closed in October 1884. An Aboriginal word having reference to kangaroo rats. The name was adopted from a nearby pastoral property.
General Notes
A description of local floods is in the Register,
17 January 1889, page 6b (see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods) and
an article describing a coach trip from Port Augusta to Coondambo appears on
10 June 1899, page 8b; also see
12 and 17 June 1899, pages 6a and 8c,
Chronicle,
24 June 1899, page 40b.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Horse Coaches.
The station and district are described in the Advertiser,
17 June 1899, page 10b; also see
18 May 1932, page 7e,
Weekly Herald,
31 August 1901.
Observer,
8 March 1924, page 46b.
"Dust at Coondambo" is in the Register,
30 March 1900, page 5a.
A poem by Robert Bruce titled "To a Duststorm" is in the Observer,
27 February 1897, page 25d:
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Outrageous thing, detestable and vast-
A very thing, that fain would choke us all-
On rushing wings of burning northern blast
Your victim hunt, and on them fiercely fall.
Where shall we crouch? O! Where securely hide?
Where? Where indeed! With you upon our tracks;
For though usurping all the countryside,
You deftly swarm through mouse-defying cracks.
When first the surface of the earth you raise,
And hurl it high, then whirl it round in glee,
We waste few moments in a mute amaze,
But breathe a prayer, and from your onslaught flee.
And if a hut should happily be nigh
We to it bolt and promptly bang the door,
While through the roof vindictively you fly,
And shake the building with resounding roar!
Why hurry so? You've little more to do,
The hut is full, and so am I about.
Thus spite the efforts of your gusty crew,
Like surplus freight, and will soon be crowded out.
Don't lift the roof! You enter fast enough;
And have missiles far to great a store
A flying rafter might come rather rough,
Though not as sand so liable to score.
You'll spare the roof because you've come to stay
And make things lively till the sun goes down.
At mud pie mixing you will, childlike, play
With sweat and grime upon my visage brown;
Would you were mortal and were forced to eat
Those dust pies vile and all your filthy store;
For then hence forward I might, clean and neat,
Sincerely dwell, pursued by you no more.
Information on his book "Benbonuna - A Tale of the Fifties" is in the Observer,
24 March 1900, page 28.
"Lost in the Bush" is in the Chronicle,
18 March 1905, page 11c.
A photograph of the first consignment of wool on the railway is in the Chronicle,
25 December 1915, page 28.
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Place Names
Coongie, Lake
Nomenclature
In the Far North-East. The 'Coongie Run' was established by H. and N. Wilson in 1875 (lease no. 2529).
General Notes
A photograph of an Aborigines' camp is in the Chronicle,
3 July 1926, page 40.
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Place Names
Cooper Creek
Nomenclature
Justice Sir Charles Cooper. 'The naming of this creek has long been a matter of controversy. It was discovered by Charles Sturt. He found that the Strzelecki Creek flowed from another river and, in the course of his return from his second expedition from Fort Grey towards the northern regions in October and November 1845, he followed the stream until he came to a point where it diverged into many channels, and was forced back. On 9 November 1845 he wrote:
- I gave the name Cooper's Creek to the water-course we had so anxiously traced, as a proof of my respect for Mr Cooper.
In 1848 A.C. Gregory proved that the Barcoo, the stream named the Victoria by Mitchell, and the Cooper were one river, and that as Sturt's discovery preceded that of Mitchell, the Victoria was again named the Cooper. By 1860 the Secretary of State for the Colonies ruled that the whole length of the river should be known as the Barcoo, and this name, together with that of the Cooper as an alternative, was recorded on the map. After many years it was tacitly agreed that the name Barcoo should be confined to the part of the river above its injunction with the Thompson.
General Notes
A proposed mission for Aborigines is discussed in the Register,
9 and 20 May 1865, pages 3b and 2c respectively; also see
Observer,
27 May 1865, page 6e,
3 August 1878, page 19g.
Also see South Australia - Aboriginal Australians
The opening of a German Mission is reported on
20 December 1909, page 10f.
Photographs are in the Observer,
8 January 1910, page 29.
The Observer of
27 July 1878, page 21f has an informative letter in respect of the district:
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The settlers in the outside districts of this colony have hitherto had little to thank the government for. In this part of the Far North something like 50,000 square miles of new country have been taken up under lease during the past three years... With regard to postal communication it was shown in a petition by the inhabitants to the Postmaster General that a fortnightly mail could be provided at a small cost from the nearest point of the mail route between Blanchetown (sic) and Kopperamanna to Innamincka (Burke's grave), the terminus of the Queensland mail service... Perhaps it may not be treasonable to hint that the fact of one station on Salt Creek being the property of a member of parliament had some little influence with authorities in favouring it more than others...
The district is described in the Advertiser,
9 September 1878, page 6e.
The inaugural meeting of a local racing club is reported in the Observer,
21 August 1886, page 17d.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing
The Register of 27 and 28 May 1887 at pages 6d and 6f has an obituary of Sir Charles Cooper.
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Place Names
Cooper, Mount
Nomenclature
North of Venus Bay, named by E.J. Eyre after Justice Sir Charles Cooper.
General Notes
The district is described in the Advertiser,
15 August 1906, page 8e;
photographs are in the Chronicle,
4 August 1906, pages 29,
Observer,
4 August 1906, page 29.
The school opened in 1939 and closed in 1965.
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Place Names
Coorabie
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'magpie water'. The town in the Hundred of Sturdee 18 km north-west of Fowlers Bay came into existence as the result of a petition by the local branch of the Agricultural Bureau of SA and was surveyed by A.D. Smith in December 1914 and proclaimed on 25 February 1915.
General Notes
Its school opened in 1897.
A photograph of the post office is in the Chronicle,
11 July 1929, page 36.
Biographical details of Thomas S. Price are in the Observer,
15 September 1928, page 34b.
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Place Names
Coorara
Nomenclature
A railway siding on the former Willunga line. It is now the name of a primary school in the district which opened as 'Yetto East' in 1980. Aboriginal for 'cloud'.
General Notes
The school opened in 1980 as "Yetto East" and in the same year became "Coorara".
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Place Names
Coorong
Nomenclature
James and Thomas Dodd named their pastoral lease 'Coorong' in 1851 which is a corruption of the Aboriginal kurangh - 'the neck'.
Coorongite
Also see South Australia - Mining - Petroleum.
A find of "petroleum" is reported in the Register,
31 January 1866, page 2c and
12 March 1866, page 2g: "... It burns with great readiness and considerable brilliancy and emits comparatively little smoke."
The find was in fact "coorongite"; also see
8 May 1866, page 3c,
20 June 1866, page 2e,
16 July 1866, page 2h,
Observer,
7 and 14 April 1866, pages 5c-1g (supp.) and 7d,
12 May 1866, page 4g, - for an interesting history of this substance see Tom McCourt and Hans Mincham, The Coorong and Lakes of the River Murray, page 192.
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Coorongite inspired the first oil drilling in Australia; inspired, too, much learned discourse, much avaricious dreaming, much shrewd beguiling - and much plain nonsense about petroleum geology... the outbreak lasted for forty or fifty years, finally subsiding with the onset of the depression in the early 1930s without producing a barrel of oil.
See McCourt and Mincham, op cit, pages 202-3 and Mining Records of South Australia (fourth edition) page 350 for a report on "Coorongite or Australian Caoutchouc"; also see Register,
10 and 15 July 1869, pages 3b and 3c,
29 August 1871, page 6e.
"The Petroleum Discoveries Exploded" is in the Observer,
7 April 1866, page 5c.
"The Coorong Lichen" is in the Observer,
2 and 30 September 1871, pages 10f and 3f.
Also see Register,
12 September 1871, page 6e;
26 November 1872, page 7d;
24 and 28 April 1873, pages 4f and 7a,
14 and 20 May 1873, pages 5c,
Express,
21 April 1873, page 3a,
Observer,
26 April 1873, page 10g,
17 May 1873, page 13d,
Express,
1 August 1873, page 3e,
Register,
24 February 1874, page 7c,
Chronicle,
22 November 1879, page 10a,
6 December 1879, page 11c,
Register,
23 and 28 August 1880, pages 6c and 5a.
"Coorongite at the Provincial Gas Works" is reported in the Advertiser,
21 April 1873, page 3e.
A letter from its alleged discoverer, C.W. Stuart, is in the Advertiser,
3 December 1879, page 6f.
A report of the production of kerosine from "coorongite" is in the Register,
21 April 1873, page 5f,
while the first meeting of the Salt Creek Petroleum Oil Co is reported on
8 February 1881, page 4g; also see
18 February 1881, page 5b,
22 April 1881, page 5c,
20 May 1881, page 5b,
25 April 1903, page 4h,
Advertiser,
22 June 1903, page 4d,
28 July 1903, page 6f.
Also see Observer,
17 October 1903, page 40d,
Register,
23, 24 and 27 June 1903, pages 5c, 6g (history of) and 6i,
28, 29, 30 and 31 July 1903, pages 3i-7g, 4f, 8h and 6f,
29 August 1903, page 5h,
24 September 1903, page 4i,
17 and 21 November 1903, pages 6i and 5f,
4 February 1904, page 3h,
23 February 1923, page 10f,
23 June 1923, page 5e,
8 August 1923, page 13d.
"Oil in South Australia - Various Indications" is in the Advertiser,
17 and 24 May 1922, pages 12a and 11a,
"The Value of Coorongite" on
14 August 1925, page 15d.
Coorong - Miscellany
The reminiscences of H.D. Melville are in the Register,
19 August 1903, page 6g,
of J.H. Boothby on
21 April 1919, page 7b.
A description of the Courong (sic), together with an account of local Aborigines, is in the Register,
8 July 1850, page 4b; also see
Register,
7 June 1856, page 3f,
Express,
16 January 1877, page 3d.
A letter concerning the local Aborigines is in the Register,
15 May 1866, page 3b - "A few years back the Coorong tribe was very numerous; now, counting old and young, there are not 50..."
"Coorong Aborigines and Wrecks" is in the Register,
15 July 1926, page 15c.
Reminiscences of Watts Newland are in the Register,
7 September 1906, page 7c,
18 October 1906, page 6g,
22 July 1911, page 8a and
Edward Austin on
18 September 1912, page 11f.
"The Coorong Aborigines and Wrecks" is in the Observer,
24 July 1926, page 60c.
"Vanished Tribal Life of Coorong Blacks" is in the Advertiser,
7 April 1934, page 11d and
"Story of Ngurenderi" on
16 May 1936, page 25b.
Also see South Australia - Aboriginal Australians
Reminiscences of the area in its early days by Henry D. Melville are in the Register,
19 August 1903, page 6g and
J.H. Boothby on
21 April 1919, page 7b.
The navigation of the Coorong is discussed in the Register,
23, 27, 28 and 30 June 1864, pages 2e, 3c, 3c and 2h; also see
2 August 1864, page 3b,
1 and 18 November 1869, pages 3f and 2f,
2 April 1872, page 6e and
Parliamentary Paper 180/1866-67 and 175/1869-70,
Register,
13 December 1880, page 4f.
A letter complaining about the lack of fresh water for stock is in the Register,
20 February 1866, page 3c: "I have seen sheep drink the salt sea water... I never beheld such a heart-rending sight."
For information on the Coorong School see note Place Names - Bonney, Hundred of.
It closed in 1925.
"Opening Up the Coorong" is in the Express,
15 February 1882, pages 2b-3d.
A coach trip through the Coorong to Kingston is described in the Register,
9 January 1883, page 7a:
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I had been informed that the road along the Coorong was frightfully rough going over boulders for miles, the stone being up to nearly two feet in height... I occasionally got a nasty bump on the back of my head through the top rail of the coach coming violently forward whenever we went into a rut across the track. The most disagreeable thing on the whole journey was the flights of 'midges', as the driver called them, which every now and then assailed us in myriads. These did not sting, though they made a noise like the singing of mosquitoes, but they were so thick I could catch a dozen by simply making a grasp through the air, and they settled in hundreds on my hair, got into my eyes, nose and ears and made me generally miserable. I tried to wrap my head in a pocket handkerchief, but was very glad to get it untied again, for they began to crowd in thicker than before. The other nuisance proceeded from the carcasses of 3,000 sheep scattered along the road, portion of a huge flock of 10,000 which was being most indiscreetly travelled in one mob. There was scarcely any feed for the poor animals and water was even more scarce and the driver is reported to have been unacquainted with the locality and drove the famished animals past the wells.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Horse Coaches.
The presence of dingoes, rabbits and foxes is discussed in the Register,
5 and 19 October 1888, pages 3g and 3e; also see
Express,
18 September 1888, page 3e,
10 October 1888, page 2g.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Birds.
"Short Trip to the Coorong" is in the Observer,
5 March 1898, page 34e.
A report in the Register on 3 December 1904 at page 11a says it means "very salt water" - "So I was informed by an Aboriginal native of the south district some years ago."
See Place Names - Goolwa.
"Marram Grass on the Coorong" is in the Chronicle,
14 April 1906, page 40a,
"Reclaiming Coorong Sandhills" is in the Advertiser,
18 June 1906, page 11d,
Observer,
23 June 1906, page 13a.
Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Miscellaneous
An essay on marram grass is to be found under Adelaide - Beaches & Bathing
"Bird Life on the Coorong" is in the Register,
26 September 1911, page 4f.
"Bird Sanctuary on Coorong" is in the Observer,
18 May 1915, page 18b.
Register,
16 May 1918, page 4f.
"Opening of the Duck Season" is in The Mail,
11 February 1922, page 15d,
"Shooting on the Coorong" in the Advertiser,
18 December 1922, page 6a,
"Sanctuaries on the Coorong" on
9 May 1923, page 13f.
"Coorong Sanctuaries - What is Their Future?" is in the Observer,
1 August 1925, page 27c.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna.
"Coorong Fisheries" is in the Observer,
19 December 1908, page 36c.
Photographs of fishing in the Coorong are in the Observer,
11 December 1915, page 10 (supp.); also see
14 January 1922, pages 24-25,
30 December 1922, page 30.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Fishing.
"Crossing the Coorong - A Nine Day's Trip" is in The Mail,
20 December 1913, page 7b.
"The Paradise of the Motorist" is in The Mail,
25 December 1915, page 11.
Photographs are in The Critic,
23 May 1917, page 11.
"Coorong Is No Longer Dreaded by Motorists" is in The News,
6 December 1933, page 6e,
"The Coorong as Track for Speed Attempt" on
1 January 1934, page 4e.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Motor Cars and Cycles.
"The Coorong Road" is in the Register,
17 January 1919, page 9f,
"The Coorong - What it Has Been, Is and May Be" on
4 June 1921, page 9c,
"The Coorong and Other Places" on
12, 15 and 20 January 1923, pages 8c, 9f and 12c.
"Opening of the Duck Season" is in The Mail,
11 February 1922, page 15d,
"Shooting on the Coorong" in the Advertiser,
18 December 1922, page 6a,
"Sanctuaries on the Coorong" on
9 May 1923, page 13f.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Birds.
Photographs of hauling Mr Bowman's vessel Dora Bassett from the beach are in the Observer,
9 April 1927, page 32.
"Through the Coorong to Kingston" is in the Advertiser,
2 September 1927, page 14b.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Motor Cars and Cycles.
"Holiday" photographs are in the Chronicle,
21 January 1932, page 32,
6 April 1933, page 32.
"Strange Charm of Coorong" is in the Advertiser,
31 December 1932, page 9d,
"Doctor of the Coorong - Ambulance Man's Work" on
19 June 1933, page 7g.
"Murders That Put Coorong Names on the Map" is in The Mail,
5 January 1935, page 4.
"Exploring the Coorong" is in the Advertiser,
12, 14 and 16 May 1936, pages 18h, 18h and 25b.
"Early Coorong Hotels" is in the Advertiser,
23 October 1937, page 31b.
Cooke Plains - Cootra
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Place Names
Cootra
Nomenclature
An Aboriginal name for a rockhole in the district.
General Notes
The Cootra East School opened in 1929 and closed in 1946;
Cootra Centre in 1930 - closed in 1941;
Cootra West in 1930 - closed in 1942;
a photograph of students is in the Chronicle,
19 March 1936, page 32.
Information on native birds is in the Register,
2 and 10 November 1906, pages 3e and 6h.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Birds.
