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=== Early history === Whyalla is part of the [[Barngarla]] Aboriginal country.<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}} A mariner named William Morgan Burgoyne purportedly recommended the site for the establishment of a port on False Bay to Harry Morgan of [[BHP]]. Burgoyne had spent several weeks there on a trip out from Port Augusta hunting kangaroo with his brother and another man called Alf Rowarth. At that time there was no settlement between Middleback Station and the [[Point Lowly Lighthouse]], and kangaroos were plentiful there. Burgoyne recalled that the tug ''Florrie'' ferried a crew there a week later and pegged out the settlement first known as Hummocky.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92381906|title=Out Among The People|date=1942-12-10|work=[[The Chronicle (South Australia)|The Chronicle]]|access-date=2020-04-24|page=33}}</ref>
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