Peters Hill, South Australia
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Location | South Australia, Australia |
Parent range | Belvidere Range |
Peters Hill, (518m), formerly Peter's Hill (the possessive apostrophe being officially deleted in December 1940) is the highest peak in the Belvidere Range of hills of South Australia[citation needed], which is a northern extension of the Mount Lofty Ranges.
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Description
Peters Hill sits atop a north-south ridge about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the surveyed town of Hamilton and around 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) nearly due east of the town of Riverton. The surrounding country supports grazing on the higher peaks and dry grain farming on the slopes and plains.[citation needed]
Naming
Peters Hill has been named as such since as early as 1842. Without doubt, the hill is named after William Peter, a Scottish grazier who in 1841 pioneered European settlement in this district. His sheep runs extended all round this hill, one of his head stations being nearby."[1] 'Peter's Hill', as well as the neighbouring 'Mr Peter's Head Station', are both marked and named on a survey plan drawn up in 1842 for the Secondary Towns Association.[2]
Despite that evidence, some history sources have caused confusion by citing alternative origins which are obviously incorrect. Among these are the Manning Index.[1][3][4] This identifies three sources for the hill's name. One is William Spence Peter, as already mentioned. Another asserts it was named after “Peter Inkster (c.1829-1917), an early settler.”,[1][3] However, Inkster did not migrate to South Australia until 1852, by which time the name had been in use for at least ten years.[5] Lastly, it was supposedly named 'Petatz Hill' after Martin Petatz, a Germanic settler who owned a nearby property. However, Petatz’s name is not recorded in official records as a landholder.[1][3] More likely, Petatz is simply a translated form of the name Peter.
History
In the early 1850s a small copper mine, the Belvidere, was worked at the north end of this hill. Around that time the first European farming settlers arrived, including a significant community of Wends, displacing the earlier pastoralists. By 1856 these pioneers had erected a school, church, and cemetery. Some of their descendants are still farming there today.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ File:http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20341869 | Plan of Secondary Towns Assoc Survey, 1842
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- ↑ See Advertiser newspaper, 24 February 1917, p.9, for Inkster's obituary.
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