MILLICENT

market and industrial town, southeastern South Australia, some 250 miles (400 km) by rail southeast of Adelaide. Founded in 1871, it was named for the wife of an early settler. The locality, which has much drained swampland, supports sheep, cattle, and grains. Limestone is quarried, and pine forests, based at Snuggery and Mount Barr, supply paper, timber, and cellulose mills. Crayfish, caught off the coast (10 miles west), are processed at Millicent, which is the terminus for a rail line from the city of Mount Gambier. At nearby Wyrie Swamp Site the world's oldest known barbed spears have been discovered, as have the oldest boomerangs yet found in Australia. Pop. (1986) 5,075.