Everything about Holdfast Bay totally explained
Holdfast Bay is a small bay in
Gulf St Vincent, next to
Adelaide,
South Australia. Along its shores lie the
City of Holdfast Bay and the popular beach-side suburb of
Glenelg.
European settlement
The bay was named by Colonel
William Light, South Australian surveyor general, in mid 1836. In his journal he expressed his pleasure at the quality of the anchorage after riding out a storm.
Holdfast Bay was the site of the landings in 1836 and 1837 by pioneers who were to set up the colony of South Australia. On
November 8 1836 Robert Gouger, Colonial Secretary and Chief Magistrate, arrived there aboard the
Africaine and set up camp near
The Old Gum Tree. With the arrival of
Governor Hindmarsh on
December 28 and the
proclamation of the new colony, the Holdfast Bay settlement became the first seat of government of South Australia. (It remained the seat of government until mid-March 1837.) On
December 31 1836 the Holdfast Bay settlement was renamed
Glenelg.
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