| Willunga South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Vines at Coriole Vineyard, McLaren Vale | |||||||||||||||
  Willunga | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°14′S 138°32′E / 35.24°S 138.53°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 29 October 1846 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 260 km2 (99 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Willunga is a cadastral unit of hundred covering the extreme south suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area.[1] It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide.[2] It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe probably deriving from a Kaurna/Ngarrindjeri place label willannga, meaning place of green trees.[3][4]
The hundred is bounded on the north by the Onkaparinga River and includes part of the McLaren Vale wine region.[citation needed] The bounds of the Hundred of Willunga span the southern half of the contemporary City of Onkaparinga local government area, including localities south of the Onkaparinga and west of Kangarilla and Kuitpo.
- ^ "Search for 'Hundred of Willunga'". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0022178. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
- ^ "Place Names of South Australia - Willunga". Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. 1990. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ Amery, Rob; Buckskin, Vincent (Jack) Kanya (March 2009), "Chapter 10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database" (PDF), in Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.), The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, ANU Press, p. 201, ISBN 9781921536571