Swanport, also formerly known as Thompson's Crossing and Thomson's Landing, is a suburban satellite locality of Murray Bridge in South Australia on the west (right) bank of the Murray River adjacent to Swanport Bridge.
[2] Its boundaries were formalised in March 2000 to cover a portion of semi-urban land immediately south of the South Eastern Freeway adjacent to the Swanport Bridge, which is the main road freight route over the Murray.
[2] It is named for the docking place on the west bank of the Murray which was home to "numerous swans"[2] and also known as Thomson's Landing.
[3] Before British colonisation, the area around Swanport was home to a significant population of Ngarrindjeri people.
In 1911, a very large Ngarrindjeri burial ground containing the remains of over a hundred people was unearthed during land reclamation operations at Swanport.