Troubridge Hill Explained
Troubridge Hill is a hill on the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia located in the locality of Honiton about 13.5km (08.4miles) south west of Edithburgh and about 3.8km (02.4miles) west of Troubridge Point. It was discovered, reported as being a ’hummock upon this low part (of the coastline)’ and named by Matthew Flinders on 24 March 1802 after Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet. Since 1980, it has been the site of an operating lighthouse known as the Troubridge Hill Lighthouse. Its adjoining coastline borders a protected area of the same name - the Troubridge Hill Aquatic Reserve.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Notes and References
- Web site: Search result for "Troubridge Hill (Hill)" (Record no. SA0009540) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" . Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia . 9 October 2016.
- Book: Department of Marine and Harbors. South Australia, Gulf of St Vincent, Edithburgh, Small Boat Chart, Scale 1:50,000). 1991.
- Book: Flinders, Matthew. Matthew Flinders. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. . 27 March 2013 . Facsimile . 1966. 1814 . Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 253.
- Web site: Manning. Geoffrey. Troubridge. The State Library of South Australia. 4 August 2014.
- Web site: Troubridge Hill Lighthouse. Lighthouses of Australia Inc. 25 June 2014.
