Hundred of Wandearah
| Hundred of Wandearah South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Hundred of Wandearah | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°24′S 137°59′E / 33.40°S 137.99°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 31 December 1874[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 280 km2 (109 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Port Pirie Region | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||||
| County | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wandearah is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia.[1] It is one of the 14 hundreds of the County of Victoria and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave in December 1874. The hundred lacks any townships and is split into the bounded of localities of Wandearah West and Wandearah East. According to South Australian historians Rodney Cockburn and Geoffrey Manning, it was named for an indigenous term meaning "big trees".[1][3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Hundred of Wandearah". SA Location Viewer. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0014161. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
Derivation: Native meaning big trees
- ^ "PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette (53 ed.). Government of South Australia. 31 December 1874. p. 2518. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
Hundred of Wandearah.—Bounded on the east by the west boundary of the Hundred of Crystal Brook; on the north by the production west of its north boundary to the sea-coast; on the south by the north boundary of the Hundred of Mundoora; and on the west By the sea-coast.
- ^ Manning, Geoffrey, "Wandearah", Manning Index of South Australian Place Names, State Library of South Australia, retrieved 31 July 2019
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