Finniss South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°51′32″S 139°17′42″E / 34.859°S 139.295°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 19 April 1860 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 330 km2 (126 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
County | Sturt | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Finniss is a cadastral unit of hundred. It is in South Australia, on the west bank of the lower Murray River.[1] It is one of the ten hundreds of the County of Sturt. The main population centre in the hundred is the township of Mannum, a river port. Apart from Mannum and Port Mannum, other localities within the hundred are Punthari in the north, Frayville and Apamurra in the west, the riverside hamlets of Pellaring Flat and Zadows Landing in the east, and parts of Wall Flat, Milendella, Tepko, and Caloote.
Derivation of Name: Colonel Boyle Travers Finniss; Other Details: Finniss was an assistant to Colonel William Light, the second Commissioner of Police, then M.L.C. 1847-1862. Area 126 square miles.