Hundred of Giles
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| Giles South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Plan of the Hundred of Giles, 1891 | |||||||||||||||
  Giles | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°51′25″S 132°46′59″E / 31.857°S 132.783°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 23 October 1890 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 270 km2 (104 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| County | Kintore | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Giles is a cadastral hundred (administrative division) in the County of Kintore, South Australia on the southeastern fringe of the Nullarbor Plain. The hundred was proclaimed in 1890 by Governor Kintore and named for a contemporary member of the state parliament, Clement Giles.[1]
The land in the hundred is very sparsely populated. As such the hundred has never been subject to dedicated local government and is instead locally administered by the Outback Communities Authority. Giles and its neighbouring hundred, Magarey, are within the bounded locality of Bookabie. A portion of the Chadinga Conservation Park is within the Hundred of Giles. Eyre Bluff (alternatively known as Point Eyre, Cap Lebrun or Cap Van-Spaendonck) is the only major geographic feature along the southern coastline within the hundred.
References
[edit]- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Giles". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 21 January 2009. SA0026069. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
Derivation of Name: G Giles, MP 1887-1902; Other Details: area 104 square miles.