Hundred of Wandearah South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°24′S 137°59′E / 33.40°S 137.99°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 31 December 1874[2] | ||||||||||||||
Area | 280 km2 (109 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Port Pirie Region | ||||||||||||||
Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||||
County | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wandearah is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia.[1] It is one of the 14 hundreds of the County of Victoria and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave in December 1874. The hundred lacks any townships and is split into the bounded of localities of Wandearah West and Wandearah East. According to South Australian historians Rodney Cockburn and Geoffrey Manning, it was named for an indigenous term meaning "big trees".[1][3]
Derivation: Native meaning big trees
Hundred of Wandearah.—Bounded on the east by the west boundary of the Hundred of Crystal Brook; on the north by the production west of its north boundary to the sea-coast; on the south by the north boundary of the Hundred of Mundoora; and on the west By the sea-coast.