Hundred of Terowie

Plan of Hundred of Terowie, 1942

The Hundred of Terowie is a cadastral hundred of South Australia centred on the town of Terowie, South Australia.

Terowie is an Aboriginal word meaning hidden waterhole[1] first applied to Terowie Creek.[2]

It was here the Douglas Macarthur first used the term "I shall return".[3]

  1. ^ Manning, G (1990). Manning's Place Names of South Australia.
  2. ^ "Munjibbee and Wookongarie Runs". South Australian Register. 27 September 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  3. ^ ""I Came out of Bataan and I Shall Return"". Monument Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2017.