Hundred of Kadina

Kadina
South Australia
Kadina is located in South Australia
Kadina
Kadina
Coordinates33°59′12″S 137°48′02″E / 33.986632°S 137.800601°E / -33.986632; 137.800601[1]
Established12 June 1862[2]
Area320 km2 (124 sq mi)[1]
LGA(s)Copper Coast[1]
RegionYorke and Mid North[1]
CountyDaly[1]
Lands administrative divisions around Kadina:
Tickera Tickera Wiltunga
Wallaroo Kadina Ninnes
Kulpara
Tiparra Tiparra Clinton
FootnotesAdjoining 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]

Plan of Hundred of Kadina, 1925

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Search result for "Hundred of Kadina, HD" with the following layers selected - "Counties", "Government Towns", "Hundreds", "Local Government Areas", "SA Government Regions" and "Gazetteer"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 7 February 2019. 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.
  2. ^ a b Waterhouse, G.M. (12 June 1862). "Proclamation" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 490. Retrieved 4 February 2019. the Counties of Robe, Grey, and Daly, in the said Province of South Australia hereinafter described should respectively be created Hundreds
  3. ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.