Hundred of Belvidere

Belvidere
South Australia
Belvidere; South Australia
	Belvidere
Coordinates	34°23′20″S 139°00′47″E / 34.389°S 139.013°E
Established	7 August 1851
LGA(s)	Light Regional Council (since 1996); District Council of Kapunda (1932–1996); District Council of Belvidere (1866–1932);
Region	Barossa Valley
County	Light
	Lands administrative divisions around Belvidere:

The Hundred of Belvidere is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the north Barossa Valley of South Australia in the County of Light.

The lightly-populated localities central to the hundred are St Johns, Moppa, Koonunga, Ebenezer and St Kitts. The more populous towns of Kapunda, Greenock, Nuriootpa, Stockwell and Truro, and the localities of Bagot Well and Fords, also cross the boundaries of the hundred, but the townships are all outside the hundred bounds.

The name appears to be derived from the Belvidere Range, spanning from Nain, south-easterly adjacent to the hundred, to Black Springs, further north. The range was named by geologist explorer Johannes Menge in 1841 because of the view it commanded (Latin bellus meaning beautiful and videre meaning sight).^[1]^[2]

^ "GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. No. 2". South Australian Register. Vol. IV, no. 179. South Australia. 26 June 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. I was obliged to fix the places where minerals occur by name of my own invention. Where Ranges had been named I used them, but I gave the name to the Belvidere Range, because of the beautiful prospect I enjoyed on the top of the highest one in it;
^ "STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA". The South Australian. Vol. VII, no. 581. South Australia. 10 December 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. Belvidere Range – Oxides of iron (various), varieties of compact quartz, zeolite do., flinty slate, hornstone, opal, zeolite, garnet, hornblende, alum-stone, talc, feldspar, dolomite, alum, plumbago or black lead, grey wacke.

[1] "GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. No. 2". South Australian Register. Vol. IV, no. 179. South Australia. 26 June 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. I was obliged to fix the places where minerals occur by name of my own invention. Where Ranges had been named I used them, but I gave the name to the Belvidere Range, because of the beautiful prospect I enjoyed on the top of the highest one in it;

[2] "STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA". The South Australian. Vol. VII, no. 581. South Australia. 10 December 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. Belvidere Range – Oxides of iron (various), varieties of compact quartz, zeolite do., flinty slate, hornstone, opal, zeolite, garnet, hornblende, alum-stone, talc, feldspar, dolomite, alum, plumbago or black lead, grey wacke.

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