The Bremer River, part of the lower
Murray-Darling catchment
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, is a river that is located in the
Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills region is located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia. The largest town in the area, Mount Barker, South Australia, Mount Barker, is one of Australia's fastest-growi ...
region in the Australian state of
South Australia
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.
Course and features
The Bremer River rises on the eastern side of the
Mount Lofty Ranges
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at an altitude of
[ south of and flows generally south, joined by the Mount Barker Creek and Dawesley Creek, before emptying into Lake Alexandrina at the lower end of the Murray-Darling basin. The river descends over its ]course
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.[
The largest town in the catchment area is Mount Barker. Other towns include Nairne and Kanmantoo. Towns on the Bremer River itself include ]Harrogate
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, Callington and Langhorne Creek, where the floodwaters are used to irrigate the local vineyards.
The river is crossed by the Old Princes Highway near Callington.
Etymology
One recorded Aboriginal name for the Bremer River was ''Miochi''.[''Register'' newspaper, 24 October 1840, page 4.] On 31 December 1837 the first European visitor, Robert Cock, named it the Hindmarsh River, in deference to the first Governor, John Hindmarsh
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Family
His grandfather William Hindmarsh was a gardener in Coni ...
. This led to the following proclamation by the second Governor, George Gawler
Colonel George Gawler (21 July 1795 – 7 May 1869) was the second Governor of South Australia, at the same time serving as Resident Commissioner, from 17 October 1838 until 15 May 1841.
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, appearing in the ''South Australian Gazette'', effective 26 June 1839, ‘His Excellency the Governor having observed that to the southward f Adelaide">Adelaide.html" ;"title="f Adelaide">f Adelaidethere are two rivers named ‘The Hindmarsh’ – one flowing into Encounter Bay, and the other into Lake Alexandrina – is pleased to direct that the latter river shall in future be named the ‘River Bremer’, in the public maps, in order to avoid confusion in the geographical description of the province.’[''Southern Australian'', 3 July 1839, page 4.] The man so honoured by the renaming was the distinguished British Royal Navy officer Gordon Bremer, who happened to command HMS ''Alligator'', which conveyed Hindmarsh back to England.
See also
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References
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Tributaries of the Murray River
Rivers of South Australia
Adelaide Hills
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