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And were promptly greeted by food shortages requiring them to eat the breast meat of crows. Hence the nickname for the denizens of the state: Crow-eaters.

South Australian here - I was unaware of the origin of the term, so thanks for that. I have an interest in such history as my distant relative, one "Johann Heinrich Both" arrived on the Bengalee back in 1838: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/bengalee1838.sht... ... and was most definitely not a criminal.

And the Australian Football team from the state capital, Adelaide, are called the Crows.

Are you referring to the aboriginal population or the Europeans who followed thousands of years later, or both? The thread that you’ve started seems to have assumed you refer to the European settlers.

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