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Hundred of Wallaroo

Hundred of Wallaroo
South Australia
Wallaroo Town 1874.png
1874 boundaries of Wallaroo Town shown on an excerpt of an 1888 map of the hundred
Hundred of Wallaroo is located in South Australia
Hundred of Wallaroo
Hundred of Wallaroo
Coordinates 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E / -33.995; 138.652Coordinates: 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E / -33.995; 138.652
Established 12 June 1862
Area 320 km2 (124 sq mi)
County Daly
Lands administrative divisions around Hundred of Wallaroo:
Spencer Gulf Hundred of Tickera Hundred of Tickera
Spencer Gulf Hundred of Wallaroo Hundred of Kadina
Spencer Gulf Hundred of Tiparra Hundred of Tiparra

The Hundred of Wallaroo is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the Copper Coast of South Australia. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly. It was named in 1869 by Governor Dominick Daly after an indigenous term presumed to mean wallaby urine.

The most densely populated town and localities of the Copper Coast council are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Wallaroo:


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