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The township was surveyed in the Currency Creek Special Survey of 1840 but it never really thrived due to the nearness of Goolwa. During the later 1800s the district supported many market gardens along the fertile river flats. The Currency Creek Cemetery contains many historic gravestones. It is
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at Adelaide, bore the same name as its mother ship, and they named the creek in honour of this boat. They reported on the good grassland in the area and its potential for agriculture.
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discovered the waterway while using a whaleboat borrowed from the Encounter Bay fishery. The whaleboat, which in September 1837 had been sold off the schooner
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is named after the nearby geographical feature and town. Founded privately by Dean Nicolle and supported by volunteers, it is being developed as a specialist
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Boundaries for the locality were created on 31 August 2000 for the "long established name" and include the Government Town of Currency Creek
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notably large compared to the township for the reason that it has serviced the entire district for well over a century.
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A Compendium of the Place Names of South Australia From Aaron Creek to Zion Hill With 54 Complementary Appendices
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In December 1837, while exploring the Lake and Murray Mouth looking for other outlets to the sea, a party led by
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with its main purpose being research into Australia's most dominant natural group of plants, the eucalypts.
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were first established in the area in 1969, with the region producing its first vintage in 1972.
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Parts of Lake Alexandrina near to Currency Creek were initially explored by
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Memorials to River Murray pioneers at Currency Creek cemetery include:
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This article is about the town in South Australia. For other uses, see
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Currency Creek lends its name to a wine region that stretches from
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Currency Creek at Manning Index of South Australian history
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in the west, to Lake Alexandrina to the east, and includes
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in an open boat in 1830 but he did not sight the creek.
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Currency Creek is located in South Australia
Coordinates
35°27′14″S 138°45′30″E / 35.453872°S 138.758216°E / -35.453872; 138.758216
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Alexandrina Council
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Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island
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