| District Council of Yatala South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  District Council of Yatala | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°50′S 138°37′E / 34.833°S 138.617°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1853 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1868 | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Yatala (1857-1868) | ||||||||||||||
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The District Council of Yatala was a local government area of South Australia established in 1853 and abolished in 1868.
The council was named after the Hundred of Yatala which was proclaimed in 1846 in the County of Adelaide,[1] Yatala likely deriving from a Kaurna word 'yartala' referring to the flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain.[2][3] The name was used to describe a large portion of the Adelaide Plains from Port Adelaide in the west to Tea Tree Gully in the east.[4]
- ^ "Search for 'Hundred of Yatala' (ID SA0030790)". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ Rob Amery (March 2009). "Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains". In Luise Hercus; Flavia Hodges; Jane Simpson (eds.). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia (PDF). ANU Press. pp. 165–180. ISBN 9781921536571.
Yatala most likely derives from yertalla 'water running by the side of a river; inundation; cascade'. As Manning (1986:238) observes 'in winter when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass'.
- ^ "Place Names of South Australia - XYZ (Yatala)". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
A Kaurna tribal word meaning 'water running by the side of a river'. In winter, when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass.
- ^ The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. 1936. p. 32.
According to Mr. [Rodney] Cockburn "Yatala" was the name applied by the Weera tribe of aborigines to the country north of the Torrens to the Little Para.