| Wallaroo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 1874 boundaries of Wallaroo Town shown on an excerpt of an 1888 map of the hundred | |||||||||||||||
  Wallaroo | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 12 June 1862 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 320 km2 (124 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Copper Coast | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
| County | Daly | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wallaroo is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the Copper Coast of South Australia.[1] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly.[2] It was named in 1862 by Governor Dominick Daly[1] after the indigenous term wadla warru presumed to mean wallaby urine.[1]
- ^ a b c "Hundred of Wallaroo". Land Services, Government of South Australia. SA0016834. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
Derivation of Name: Corruption of Abna wadla warru; Other Details: Area 124 square miles. Wadla warru means wallaby's urine twisted to wallawaroo then to wallaroo.
- ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.