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    Port Adelaide - Tidal Inundations and Floods

    Reports of earlier inundations than that mentioned in Manning's Place Names of South Australia are to be found in the Southern Australian,
    13 June 1843, page 2b,
    South Australian,
    22 June 1847, page 3b,
    Register,
    10 May 1851, page 2c,
    19 and 21 June 1851, pages 2e and 3e.
    The Register of
    21 July 1851, page 3b deplored the condition of its streets:

    The Register of
    14 April 1853, page 3c reports "an extraordinary tidal inundation at Port Adelaide"; also see
    18 May 1859, page 3h.

    The 1865 inundation is described and commented upon in the Register -
    13 May, page 2f - "Water poured in upon the lower part of the Port with fearful rapidity..."; also see
    15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 25 and 30 May, pages 2e, 2c-3e, 2d, 2d, 2f, 3d-3f and 3h,
    10 June, page 3f; also see
    Express,
    13 and 16 May 1865, pages 2a and 3a.

    A report on an "Inundation Relief Fund" is in the Register on
    7 July 1865, page 2c; also see
    Advertiser,
    15, 18 and 23 May 1865, pages 2b, 2e and 3a,
    14 June 1865, page 2f.

    A later inundation is described in the Register on 15 May 1877, page 5d and on the same day on page 6a is a humorous poem which reads in part:

    Also see Register, 17 June 1901, page 4f under "An Abnormal Tide":

    Also see Register,
    18 June 1901, page 6b,
    29 October 1901, page 8b,
    15 July 1904, page 5e,
    Advertiser,
    15 July 1904, page 6b,
    27 August 1904, page 6f,
    27 July 1917, page 6f,
    Register,
    24 September 1923, page 8b,
    The News,
    30 June 1931, page 1e.