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Finniss Valley, Northern Territory
Finniss may refer to: People * B. T. Finniss (1807–1893), Premier of South Australia Places * Electoral district of Finniss, an electoral district in South Australia * Finniss, South Australia, a small town * Finniss Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia * Hundred of Finniss (Northern Territory) The Hundred of Finniss is a hundred (administrative division) of Palmerston County, Northern Territory, Australia. It is located at latitude -13°01'S and longitude 130°48'E. Hundred of Finniss was one of the initial 13 hundreds of Palmerston Cou ..., a cadastral unit * Hundred of Finniss (South Australia), a cadastral unit See also * Finnis, a related surname * Finniss River (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Finniss
Finniss is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after B. T. Finniss, the first Premier of South Australia. It covers a regional area which includes the localities of Back Valley, Currency Creek, Encounter Bay, Finniss, Goolwa, Goolwa Beach, Goolwa North, Goolwa South, Hayborough, Hindmarsh Island, Hindmarsh Tiers, Hindmarsh Valley, Lower Inman Valley, McCracken, Middleton, Mosquito Hill, Mount Compass, Mount Observation, Mundoo Island, Nangkita, Port Elliot, Tooperang, and Victor Harbor; as well as parts of Inman Valley and Waitpinga. Finniss has been a very safe seat for the Liberal Party since its creation at the 1991 electoral redistribution as a replacement for the equally safe Alexandra. Dating to its time as part of Alexandra, the area now in Finniss has been held by Liberals or their predecessor, the Liberal and Country League, without interruption since 1941. For most of that time, it has been a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finniss, South Australia
Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town) is a settlement in South Australia. It is on the Victor Harbor railway line just the Adelaide side of where it crosses the Finniss River. The town was originally surveyed with the name ''Queen's Own Town'' (after the Queens Own Regiment of Foot) in 1867 as the railway line was being extended from Goolwa to Strathalbyn. The name of the town was not changed to Finniss until 1940, although the adjacent railway station had already been named Finniss in honour of an early surveyor and the first Premier of South Australia, Colonel Boyle Travers Finniss Boyle Travers Finniss (18 August 1807 – 24 December 1893) was the first premier of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857. Early life Finniss was born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope, Southern Africa, and lived in .... The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Finniss had a population of 293 people. References Towns in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finniss Conservation Park
Finniss Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Mount Lofty Ranges about south of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of Ashbourne. It is located within the gazetted locality of Mount Magnificent. The conservation park consists of the following land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Kondoparinga - "Allotment 22 of DP 63695" and sections 107, 108 and 1963. It came into existence on 29 January 1976 by proclamation under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' in respect to section 1963. Land in sections 107 and 108 was added on 28 November 1985 and land in Allotment 22 was added on 23 June 2005. As of 2018, it covered an area of . The Heysen Trail, the long distance walking trail, passes along the west side of the conservation park from Ridge Road in the south to Mount Magnificent Road in the north. In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows:A small park preserving a natural remna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Finniss (Northern Territory)
The Hundred of Finniss is a hundred (administrative division) of Palmerston County, Northern Territory, Australia. It is located at latitude -13°01'S and longitude 130°48'E. Hundred of Finniss was one of the initial 13 hundreds of Palmerston County named in 1871, and probably named after Boyle Travers Finniss Boyle Travers Finniss (18 August 1807 – 24 December 1893) was the first premier of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857. Early life Finniss was born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope, Southern Africa, and lived in M .... References {{Counties and Hundreds of the Northern Territory, state=collapsed F ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Finniss (South Australia)
The Hundred of Finniss is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia on the west bank of the lower Murray River. It is one of the ten hundreds of the County of Sturt. The main population centre in the hundred is the township of Mannum Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide. At the 2016 census, the urban area of Mannum had a population of 2,398. Mannum is the seat of the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in the ..., a river port. Apart from Mannum and Port Mannum, other localities within the hundred are Punthari in the north, Frayville and Apamurra in the west, the riverside hamlets of Pellaring Flat and Zadows Landing in the east, and parts of Wall Flat, Milendella, Tepko, and Caloote. References Finniss 1860 establishments in Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnis
Finnis is an English language surname. Notable people with this name include: * Benjamin Finnis (born 1937), British modern pentathlete *Dorothy Kell Finnis (1903–1970), South Australian physiotherapist * Frank Finnis (1851–1918), British Royal Navy admiral * Henry Finnis (1890–1945), British officer in the Indian Army * Horace Percy Finnis (1883–1960), Anglican clergyman and organist in South Australia *John Finnis (born 1940), Australian legal philosopher *John Finnis (captain) "Captain Finnis" (1802–1872), seaman and overlander in South Australia *Matt Finnis, Chief Executive Officer of the St Kilda (Australian rules) Football Club *Rachel Finnis, bka Rachel Brown (born 1980), footballer (women's soccer), married to Ian Finnis, pro golf caddie *Valerie Finnis Valerie Finnis (1924–2006) was a well-known British photographer, lecturer, teacher and gardener.Ursula Buchan and Anna Pavord (2007) Garden People: Valerie Finnis and the Golden Age of Gardening. Thames & Hudson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |