Hundred of Wallaroo South Australia |
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1874 boundaries of Wallaroo Town shown on an excerpt of an 1888 map of the hundred
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Coordinates | 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°ECoordinates: 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 12 June 1862 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 320 km2 (124 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
County | Daly | ||||||||||||||
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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: