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Castambul is a small locality near Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the Adelaide Hills Council local government area. ==History== Castambul was originally named Sixth Creek, but was renamed Castambul by Price Maurice after the Kastamonu (previously Kastambul) region in the Black Sea area of Turkey. In the 1850s, Australia's first payable gold mine (the Victoria) was located in the area.〔(Victoria Gold Mine ) at Mindat.org〕 The area was also home to Price Maurice, who moved to Castambul in 1856 and bred Angora goats for wool. Angora goats were introduced from Turkey to South Australia by John Haigh, who bred them near Port Lincoln. After purchasing Haigh's flock, Maurice was impressed with their potential and soon sent to Turkey for additional animals. His enterprises in South Australia were very successful but he returned to Britain with his family in 1862 for health reasons.〔(Adelaide Hills Council - Historical Town Information ) Accessed 15 June 2006〕〔(Maurice Home Page ), John Kirkwood. Retrieved 9 July 2006〕 Kastambul Post Office opened on an unknown date and closed at the end of 1971. Today, very little exists of the old settlement. In 1966, work started on the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir, a dam of the River Torrens, and in 1969, it was completed at a cost of $5.3 million. Apart from supplying water to eastern Adelaide, it also serves a flood protection role and holds 19,160 megalitres.〔(SA Water - Kangaroo Creek Reservoir )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castambul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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