Editing Port Augusta (section)

==History==
Port Augusta is part of [[Aboriginal Australians]]' [[Nukunu]] country, in which the local language is [[Barngarla]]. The last speaker of the language died in 1964, but successful efforts have been made to revive it based on a 3500-word dictionary compiled in the 1840s by German Lutheran pastor [[Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann]].<ref name=goordnada/><ref>[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann|Zuckermann, Ghil'ad]] (2020), [[w:en:Revivalistics|''Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond'']], [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/revivalistics-9780199812790 Oxford University Press]. {{ISBN|9780199812790}} / {{ISBN|9780199812776}}</ref>{{rp|230}} Its original Barngarla name is ''Goordnada''.<ref>[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann|Zuckermann, Ghil'ad]] and the Barngarla (2019), [https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ghilad.zuckermann?dsn=directory.file;field=data;id=41076;m=view''Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together)''], Barngarla Language Advisory Committee. ([https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ghilad.zuckermann?dsn=directory.file;field=data;id=41096;m=view ''Barngarlidhi Manoo'' – Part II])</ref>{{rp|78}}

It is a natural harbour, which was proclaimed on 24 May 1852 by Alexander Elder (brother of [[Thomas Elder]]) and [[John Grainger (politician)|John Grainger]], having discovered it while aboard the Government schooner ''[[Yatala (clipper ship)#Other vessels named Yatala|Yatala]]'', captained by Edward Dowsett.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=61&c=5968|title=SA Memory: Port Augusta|publisher=State Library of South Australia|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref> The port was named after Augusta Sophia, Lady Young, the wife of the Governor of South Australia, [[Henry Young|Sir Henry Edward Fox Young]]. Lady Young was the daughter of Charles Marryat Snr., who had been a slaveholder in the [[British West Indies]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.17613/d8ht-p058 |year=2019 |last1=Coventry |first1=CJ |title=Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia |journal=Before/Now |volume=1 |issue=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |work=Legacies of British Slave-ownership database |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/42069 |title=Charles Marryat |publisher=[[University College London]] |access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref> Her brother was the Anglican minister [[Dean of Adelaide]] [[Charles Marryat]].