Hundred of Warrow

Hundred of Warrow, 1884.

The Hundred of Warrow is a cadastral hundred of the County of Flinders, South Australia.

The hundred was proclaimed in 1869. It is bisected east from west by the Flinders Highway,[1] north of Port Lincoln. The main centre of population in the hundred is the town of Coulta.[2]

History

The traditional owners of the district were the Nauo Indigenous Australians.[3] The first European to make contact with this stretch of coastline was the French explorer Nicolas Baudin who said as far as Lacepede Bay in 1802.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.geodata.us/australia_names_maps/aumaps.php?fid=204121&f=203
  2. ↑ Township of Coulta : Hundred of Warrow South Australia. Surveyor-General's Office, Oct 1877.
  3. ↑ David Horton (ed.),Aboriginal Australia Map (The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS, 1994)
  4. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald Travel (2004-02-08), "Kingston SE", The Sydney Morning Herald, retrieved 2007-05-26

Coordinates: 34°25′12″S 135°28′01″E / 34.420°S 135.467°E / -34.420; 135.467


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