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Mount Barker is an expanding city, home to 14,452〔(2011 Census QuickStats: Mount Barker (Urban Centre) ) Accessed 16 February 2014.〕 residents, that is 33 kilometres up the South Eastern Freeway, east of Adelaide CBD district, in South Australia. It is the seat of the District Council of Mount Barker, the largest town in the Adelaide Hills, and one of the fastest growing areas in the state. Mount Barker lies at the base of a local eponymous peak, called the Mount Barker summit. It is 50 kilometres from the Murray River. Mount Barker was traditionally a farming area, and many of the lots just outside the town area are farming lots, although some of them have been replaced with new subdivisions in recent times. The Mount Barker Summit was first discovered by Captain Collet Barker in 1831. Barker was killed by Aborigines a few days later. Captain Charles Sturt named Mount Barker after him. Mount Barker is well serviced, with a recently upgraded Police station, a Country Fire Service station, the Adelaide Hills State Emergency Service centre, an Ambulance station, and five bus routes. Mount Barker is in the federal division of Mayo, and the state electoral districts of Kavel and Heysen, with most of the town in Kavel, and only the south-eastern portion of the town in Heysen. Local Federal Member of Parliament, Jamie Briggs, succeeded former Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer. Mount Barker was the epicentre of an earthquake on 16 April 2010 at 11.35pm local time. The quake registered 3.8 on the Richter scale. ==History== Mount Barker, the mountain, was first sighted by Captain Charles Sturt in 1830, although he thought he was looking at the previously discovered Mount Lofty. Captain Collet Barker corrected this error when he surveyed the area in 1831. Sturt named the mountain in honour of Captain Barker after he was killed later that year by Aborigines, at the Murray Mouth.〔(District Council of Mount Barker ) "History"〕 The mountain was officially recognised by King William IV in 1834, two years before the colonisation of South Australia in 1836.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Mt Barker, Adelaide Hills On-Line )〕 The first Europeans to ascend the mountain, on 27 November 1837, were a six-man party comprising John Barton Hack, John Morphett, Samuel Stephens, Charles Stuart (South Australian Company's stock overseer), Thomas Davis (Hack's stockman), and John Wade (a "gentleman from Hobart Town").〔The Colonist, 28 December 1837, p. 2.〕 Four weeks later, on 25 December 1837, four colonists, Robert Cock, William Finlayson, A. Wyatt, and G. Barton, left Adelaide to examine the country south east of Adelaide toward Lake Alexandrina.〔South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register. Adelaide, Saturday 20 January 1838〕〔Recollections of Old Colonists" (RGSA vol 6), "Reminiscences by Pastor Finlayson" pp 48-49〕〔(A Chequered Career - Reminiscences of a Pioneer III ) ''South Australian Register'' 28 April 1884 p.7 accessed 7 September 2011〕 Along the route, they also ascended the mount. Mount Barker was originally home to the Peramangk Aboriginal people. The Ngarrindjeri people from the east also used the Summit for ceremonial and burial sites. The Mount Barker Summit is a significant Aboriginal area, and may be one of the most sacred sites near Adelaide.〔(District Council of Mount Barker ) "Aboriginal History of the area"〕 In 1984 the Ngarrindjeri people tried to prevent the building of a police communications tower, and in 1987 they also tried to stop the Telecom tower, although both attempts were not successful. 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「Mount Barker, South Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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