District Council of Portland Estate South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°51′05″S 138°30′28″E / 34.8514°S 138.5077°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1859 | ||||||||||||||
Abolished | 1884 | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Portland Estate was a local government area of South Australia established in 1859 and abolished in 1884. It was seated at the Portland Estate subdivision, immediately south of the modern township of Port Adelaide.[1]
Current Name: Port Adelaide (portion); Alternative Name: Port Land Estate; Other Details: Private subdivision of sections 1129/30, by Levi and Watts in the 1850s. Portland name as suburb formally submitted by City of Port Adelaide at council meeting held on 10 May 1945 but included into Port Adelaide following recommendation by Nomenclature Committee to avoid confusion with locality in Victoria.