Kadina South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°59′12″S 137°48′02″E / 33.986632°S 137.800601°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 12 June 1862[2] | ||||||||||||||
Area | 320 km2 (124 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Copper Coast[1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Daly[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | Adjoining hundreds[1] |
The Hundred of Kadina is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the north-western Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly[3] and was proclaimed by Governor Dominick Daly on 12 June 1862.[2]
The hundred was named for a Narungga term Gardina which is thought to mean 'lizard plain'.[1] The township of Cunliffe is located in the south western corner of the hundred and the eastern outskirts of the eponymous major township of Kadina cross the mid-western border of the hundred.[1]
Derivation of Name: From Abna caddy-yeena; Other Details: Area 124 square miles. Aborigninal word "caddy-yeena' means lizard plain. The name was applied to a plain 4 miles south of the town. Anglicised version of the Narungga name Gardina for a camp in this area.
the Counties of Robe, Grey, and Daly, in the said Province of South Australia hereinafter described should respectively be created Hundreds