Port Elliot - Fast Facts

Port Elliot (including Middleton)
Historic port on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Located 91 km south of Adelaide, Port Elliot is a pleasant township which was once the major port for good moving up and down the Murray River. Today it is a popular holiday destination on the South Coast.

The area of South Australia which now stretches from Lake Alexandrina and the mouth of the Murray River around through Goolwa to Port Elliot developed as a unified whole. By 1829 Captain Charles Sturt had made his historic journey down the Murray River and there was a feeling that a settlement should be established near the mouth of the river so that the inland could be opened up.