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Mount Crawford is a hill in South Australia approximately north of Birdwood in the Mount Lofty Ranges. ==History== The Indigenous name for Mount Crawford was ''Teetáka''.〔Hossfeld, P.S. : ''The Aborigines of South Australia: Native occupation of the Eden Valley and Angaston Districts''. From Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, No 50: p 293〕 The mount was given its present name in 1839 by Charles Sturt after James Coutts Crawford (1817–1889).〔Recollections of travel in Australia and New Zealand, by James Coutts Crawford, London 1880, page 17.〕 Crawford had a Royal Navy background. He and his drovers arrived overland from NSW in April 1839 with 700 cattle, setting up a hut and cattle run at the base of the mount.〔The Diary of James Coutts Crawford: Extracts on Aborigines and Adelaide, 1839 & 1841. South Australiana, March 1965.〕〔Register newspaper, 13 July 1839, p 2.〕 Crawford soon moved on to be a pioneer of Wellington, New Zealand. In February 1840 Crawford's hutkeeper, an old soldier, was bailed up by bushrangers Curran, Hughes, and Fox, who robbed him of his arms and rations. Curran and Hughes were executed by hanging at Adelaide on 16 March 1840 for an armed robbery committed earlier near Gawler.〔Inman: first commander of the South Australia Police, by Max Slee. Seaview Press 2010, pp.145-154.〕 The pioneer families during the first decades of closer settlement included surnames such as Coleman, Hammat, Rankine, Polden, Murray, Warren, and Whyte. The subsequent history was one of mining and pastoralism, until being largely replaced by forestry and recreation activities.〔History of Mount Crawford district, 1839-1969 / Sheila Gordon, David Manser〕 An alluvial goldrush occurred in the area in the late nineteenth century, and fossicking still goes on in the area today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Crawford (South Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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