Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town) is a

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. It is on the

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just the

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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

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, 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.

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