Tells the story of the Noarlunga district beginning in the days before European settlement when the area belonged to the Kaurna Aboriginal people and tracing its development through first settlement, through gold hunger to modern times. Early contact between explorers, sealers and whalers with Aboriginal people, including the kidnapping of Aboriginal women; scattered references thoughout. Biographies of some early settlers, e.g. Reynell, Hepenstall, Teakle, Colton, Taylor, Christie, Easton, Bain, Jared, Oliver, Anderson, Short. History of transport, whaling, aborigines. Index and refs.
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