Hurtle Square

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| name = Hurtle Square

| native_name = Tangkaira

| image = Hurtle Square dreams.jpg

| image_caption = The last word of "THE FOREST OF DREAMS", which encircles the Halifax/Pulteney intersection

| map = Australia South Australia City of Adelaide

| type = Square

| location = Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

| coordinates = {{coord|34.9322|S|138.6063|E|type:landmark_region:AU|display=title,inline}}

| area =

| created = {{start date|1837}}

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Hurtle Square, also known as Tangkaira, is one of five public squares in the Adelaide city centre, South Australia. Located in the centre of the south-eastern quarter of the city, it surrounds the intersection of Halifax and Pulteney streets. Its north edge is bounded by Carrington Street.

It is one of six squares designed by the founder of Adelaide, Colonel William Light, who was Surveyor-General at the time, in his 1837 plan of the City of Adelaide which spanned the River Torrens Valley, comprising the city centre (South Adelaide) and North Adelaide. The square was named in 1837 by the Street Naming Committee after James Hurtle Fisher, South Australia's first Resident Commissioner. In 2003, as part of the dual naming initiative by the Adelaide City Council, a second name, Tangkaira, was assigned in the Kaurna language of the original inhabitants.

History

The street naming committee named the square after James Hurtle Fisher, South Australia's first Resident Commissioner, on 23 May 1837.{{cite web|url=https://published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/placenamesofsouthaustralia/Streets_of_Adelaide_and_Nth_Adelaide.pdf|publisher=State Library of South Australia|title=Nomenclature of the Streets of Adelaide and North Adelaide|quote=taken from The City of Adelaide Year Book, 1939-1940|accessdate=14 December 2019}}{{cite web | title = History of Adelaide Through Street Names | work = History of South Australia website | url = http://www.historysouthaustralia.net/STsquare.htm | accessdate = 2008-07-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080614012126/http://www.historysouthaustralia.net/STsquare.htm | archive-date = 14 June 2008 | url-status = dead }}

In March 2003, as part of the City of Adelaide's dual naming project, in association with the University of Adelaide's Kaurna Dictionary Project, the square was assigned the name "Tangkaira", a word which means "fungus", after a prominent Kaurna person.{{cite web|url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/placenames/meaning/?template=print|title=Kaurna Placename Meanings within the City of Adelaide|publisher=University of Adelaide. Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi|date= 27 November 2019|accessdate=28 November 2019 }} Tangkaira (also known as Charlotte), who came from the Clare district, was the wife of Ityamai-itpina (aka "King Rodney"), a key negotiator with the new colonists. She provided what would become an important resource for reviving the Kaurna language in recent times, by writing one of the earliest examples of the written Kaurna language: a letter by school children to Governor Gawler in 1841, pleading that he continue working as Governor.{{cite web|url=https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/city-squares-recognise-women-from-the-past/|website=City of Adelaide|title=City squares recognise women from the past|date=19 March 2018|accessdate=28 November 2019}}

Description

Located in the centre of the south-eastern quarter of the city, the Square surrounds the intersection of Halifax and Pulteney Streets, with its northern edge is bounded by Carrington Street. The surrounding area is mostly residential.

Hurtle Square

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