The Surveyor General of South Australia (also stylised Surveyor-General) is a position originally created for the Surveyor General for the colony of South Australia. The post is held by an official responsible for government surveying.
List of Surveyors General of South Australia Surveyor General Period in office Notes William Light 1836 – July 1838 Chose the site of Adelaide George Ormsby July 1838 – March 1839 Acting, after Light's resignation Charles Sturt March – October 1839 Famous as an explorer Edward Charles Frome October 1839 – February 1849 British Army officer, retired as a general Arthur Henry Freeling 1849–1861 Gave his name to Freeling, South Australia George Woodroffe Goyder 1861–1894 Mapped Goyder's Line William Strawbridge 1894–1911 Edwin Mitchell Smith 1911–1917 Norman William Pethick 1917–1921 Theodore Ernest Day 1921–1930 James Henry McNamara 1930–1937 Clive Melville Hambidge 1937–1950 Arthur Dickerson Smith 1950–1951 Harold Leslie Fisk 1951–1959 Alexander Hubert Hawdon Davison 1959–1961 Harry Alexander Bailey 1961–1969 George Harry Campbell Kennedy 1969–1978 (sometimes written Campbell–Kennedy) Bryan Howard Bridges 1978–1987 John Reginald Porter 1987–1992 Christopher William Lunnay 1992–1993 acting Peter Maclaren Kentish 1993–2012 Michael Paul Burdett 2012–2022 Bradley James Slape 2022–present
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Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists... Australian Dictionary of Biography Surveyor-General search