Hundred of Jellicoe
Jellicoe South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Jellicoe | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°31′S 139°12′E / 34.51°S 139.20°ECoordinates: 34°31′S 139°12′E / 34.51°S 139.20°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 7 August 1851 | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Mid Murray Council | ||||||||||||||
County | Eyre | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Jellicoe (formerly Hundred of North Rhine) is a cadastral hundred in the County of Eyre in South Australia. It is located on the east Mount Lofty Ranges foothills. The Hundred of North Rhine was proclaimed in 1851[1] but the name was changed in 1918 to current, after Admiral John Jellicoe, as part of a process to remove "names of enemy origin" at the time of World War I.[1]
The Hundred of Jellicoe includes the township and most of the locality of Truro, Towitta, Keyneton and a portion of the western edge of the locality of Sedan.[1]
The original name "North Rhine" is in reference to the North Rhine River, a tributary of the Marne River (formerly known as South Rhine). The North Rhine flows southwards through the hundred from its source at the north western boundary between Moculta and Keyneton (part of the western boundary between the Hundred of Moorooroo and Jellicoe) to join the Marne east of Eden Valley.
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- 1 2 3 "Search result for 'Hundred of Jellicoe, HD'". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0032757. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
Other details: Area 124 square miles. Admiral Jellicoe commanded the fleet at the Battle of Jutland in WWI. Originally proclaimed as the Hundred of North Rhine on 7/8/1851. Name alteration originally proposed as Wiltowonga North Hundred by Nomeclature Committee during the move to alter "names of enemy origin" in 1916 not accepted.