Swanport
Town in South Australia
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Swanport, formerly known as Thompson's Crossing and Thomson's Landing, is a suburban satellite locality of Murray Bridge in South Australia. It is located on the west (right) bank of the Murray River, adjacent to Swanport Bridge.[2] Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of semi-urban land immediately south of the South Eastern Freeway adjacent to the Swanport Bridge, which is the main road freight route over the Murray.[2] It is named for the docking place on the west bank of the Murray which was home to "numerous swans"[2] and also known as Thomson's Landing.[3]
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 Swanport | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 35.153°S 139.312°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 157 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5253 | ||||||||||||
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Before British colonisation, the area around Swanport was home to a significant population of Ngarrindjeri people. In 1911, a large Ngarrindjeri burial ground containing the remains of over a hundred people was unearthed during land reclamation operations at Swanport. Most of the bones were subsequently transported to the Adelaide Museum.[4][5][6]
