| Hundred of Barunga South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Grain silos beside railway track at Snowtown | |||||||||||||||
  Hundred of Barunga | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°43′S 138°10′E / 33.72°S 138.17°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 15 July 1869 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 330 km2 (129 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||||
| County | Daly | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Barunga is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia on the approximate area of the Barunga Range, centred on Bald Hill.[1] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly.[2] It was named in 1869 by Governor James Fergusson[1] after an indigenous term meaning gap in the range.[1] See Barunga Range § Etymology
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The following localities and towns of the Wakefield Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Barunga:
- Snowtown (most part)
- Hope Gap
- Mundoora (southeast quadrant only)
- Lake View (western half)
- Burnsfield (western half)
- Wokurna (eastern half)
- Barunga Gap (northern half)
- ^ a b c "Search for 'Hundred of Barunga, HD'". Land Services, Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0005062. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
Derivation of Name: ABNA for gap in the range
- ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.