The locality is bounded on the west by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The Black Range stretches north–south through the locality from the foot of Mount Templeton outside the northern boundary of the locality. Similarly, the Bismark Valley (thought to be named in jest by early settler families of German origin for Otto von Bismarck) runs north to south through the centre of the locality.[4]
Traditional occupants
According to the Manning Index of South Australian History the "Nantuwwara [sic] tribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the River Wakefield, north to Whitwarta and west to Hummock Range", an area which would encompass the modern localities of Bowmans, Whitwarta, Goyder, Beaufort, Nantawarra and Mount Templeton. The term Nantuwara (or Nantuwaru) is considered to be a specific name for the northern hordes of the Kaurna people.[5] Stone implements thought to have been used by the Nantuwara people were discovered at sites adjoining the banks of the lower reaches of the River Wakefield and added to a South Australian Museum collection curated by Harold Cooper in the 1960s.[6]
^"Placename Details: Bismark Valley". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. SA0046566. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2019. [...] Probably named by the German settlers as nearly all the pioneer's farming in the gully were owned by people of German origin (including the Dohse, Lange, Baum & Zerk families), who had first settled in the Barossa and later moved when this land opened up. The settlers had no known affinity with or for Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany at that time, & according to oral family tradition it seems that in adopting the name they were having a joke on themselves. Bismark Gully is a long valley running generally south from the foot of Mt Templeton [...]
