| Talunga South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Bridge over the Torrens at Gumeracha, circa 1869 | |||||||||||||||
  Talunga | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°49′16″S 138°56′17″E / 34.821°S 138.938°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 29 October 1846 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 230 km2 (89 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Adelaide Hills | ||||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Talunga is a cadastral hundred of the County of Adelaide, South Australia, spanning the Torrens Valley in the Adelaide Hills.[1][2][3][4] It was proclaimed by Governor Frederick Robe in 1846 and named for an indigenous term thought to mean 'waterhole'.
The main towns within the hundred are Cudlee Creek, Kenton Valley, Gumeracha, Mount Torrens, Birdwood, Forreston and Mount Pleasant
- ^ Leadbeater, Maureen M (5 June 2016). "Counties and Hundreds – South Australia". FamilyHistorySA.info. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ "Counties and hundreds of South Australia".
- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Talunga". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0019043. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
Derivation of Name: Abna for a waterhole; Other Details: Area 89 square miles. According to Chas Hope Harris the word means "waterhole formed by wash-out in creek".
- ^ Hundred of Talunga, at geodata.us.