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- Early Settlers (my family)
- S.A. Aviation Facts & Activities
- Woomera Rocket Range
Coldfoot, Alaska - located 95km above the Arctic Circle at km 280 of the Dalton Highway. It is said that the name was derived from travellers getting "cold feet" about making the 380km journey furthur north to Deadhorse.
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Adelaide Hills Businesses
Click here for facts about early Adelaide Hills Businesses.No spelling mistake here - Littlehampton was Little Hampton for more than 50 years.
Early businesses included hotels and breweries, brick making, meatworks, a silk industry, jam making, honey from beekeeping, milling, mining, smelting, tanning and more.
Adelaide Hills Localites
Click here for facts about early Adelaide Hills towns & localities.Some town names were changed in WW1:
Due to rising anti-German sentiment and the Nomenclature Act of 1917, which sought to replace Germanic titles with British or Australian names. Some kept the changed names and some have reverted to their original names. Other localities were largely forgotten or merged into other townships.
Early Settlers (my family)
Click here for facts about my family.This page is devoted to the CHILDS family of Littlehampton and the people connect directly to this family tree. Family names include John WATTS & Nancy AVERY, Henry JACOBS & Harriet OVENS, George WILLIAMSON & Johannah MAYER, William OVENS & Harriet Maskelyne AUST, John Young CROSSMAN & Hannah PERRY, Benjamin LEWIS & Mary EDWARDS, James COPPIN & Charlotte DENCE and Stephen CHILDS & Ann COPPIN.
S.A. Aviation Facts & Activities
Click here for facts about early S.A. aviators, aircraft, aviation science & children's activity sheets.Adelaide engineer Carl "Bill" Wittber achieved Australia's first unassisted "hop" in an imported Bleriot XI monoplane at Bolivar on March 12, 1910, while doing taxiing tests. Just five days later, Fred Custance completed the first controlled, sustained powered flight in South Australia at the same location, circling three miles in about five minutes.
Woomera Rocket Range
Click here for facts about the Woomera Rocket Range.Established in 1947, the Woomera Prohibited Area in the South Australian outback became a vital center for British and Australian aerospace and weapons testing. It was the premier site for launching early rockets and experimental aircraft, solidifying the state's long-term ties to advanced aerospace engineering.