Port Lincoln is a city in the Australian state of South Australia and is located about 280 kilometers west of Adelaide as the crow flies (coastline about 660 km). It is located at the southern end of the Eyre Peninsula on Boston Bay . Port Lincoln has approximately 14,000 residents and is part of the Administrative District (LGA) of Port Lincoln City .
In the area of today's Port Lincoln lived Aborigine the Barngarla (Parnkalla). Port Lincoln's original name was Galinyala . Europeans first settled there in 1836 after Matthew Flinders called the port in February 1802 and named it after his English hometown Lincoln. The port developed into a transshipment point for goods.
economy
Port Lincoln is home to Australia's largest commercial fishing fleet, and fish farming is the city's main source of income. The place has a railway station with a large capacity, which serves as a transshipment point for canned fish, meat and lamb, tuna and regionally produced wool. The tuna is sold to Japan primarily because of its good quality.
^ "Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann , Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide [...] told NITV [National Indigenous Television]: 'I urge Australia to define the 330 Aboriginal languages, most of them sleeping beauties, as the official languages of their region. [Australia should] introduce bilingual signs and thus change the linguistic landscape, of this beautiful country. So, for example, Port Lincoln should also be referred to as Galinyala , which is its original Barngarla name '", Article by Sophie Verass (NITV), Indigenous meanings of Australian town names , August 10, 2016.
