| Melville South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Edithburgh on the east coast of the hundred | |||||||||||||||
  Melville | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°04′02″S 137°38′49″E / 35.067220°S 137.646990°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 18 February 1869 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 317 square kilometres (122.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| County | Fergusson | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Melville is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia on the southern Yorke Peninsula. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Fergusson. Proclaimed on 18 February June 1869, it was named after Lord Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty (chief of the Royal Navy) in the 1810s and 1820s.[1]
The localities of Coobowie, Edithburgh, Honiton, Sultana Point and parts of Port Moorowie, Wool Bay and Yorketown are within the hundred boundaries.
- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Melville". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0044171. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.