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County Of Buckingham (South Australia)
The County of Buckingham is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor James Fergusson in 1869 and named for the third Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville who was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1867. It is located adjacent to the Victorian border in the state's upper south east. This includes most of the contemporary local government area of Tatiara District Council and a small east portion of Coorong District Council. Hundreds The County of Buckingham is divided into the following 11 hundreds: * Hundred of Archibald (Ngarkat, Coombe) * Hundred of Makin (Ngarkat, Makin) * Hundred of McCallum (Ngarkat, McCallum) * Hundred of Shaugh ( Shaugh) * Hundred of Stirling (Keith) * Hundred of Pendleton ( Sherwood, Brimbago) * Hundred of Cannawigara ( Sherwood, Lowan Vale, northern half of Cannawigara) * Hundred of Senior ( Senior) * Hundred of Willalooka ( Willalooka) * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith, South Australia
Keith is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east about from the state capital of Adelaide at the junction of the Dukes Highway and the Riddoch Highway. It is sometimes referred to as the 'lucerne capital of Australia' due to the high number of lucerne growers in the region. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Keith had a population of 1355 people of which 1076 lived in the town centre. History A large granite outcrop outside the town called Mount Monster was a basis for the area's name until it was surveyed in 1884 and officially proclaimed Keith in 1889. It is believed that the town is named after the home town of the Governor of South Australia at the time, Lord Kintore. His home in Aberdeenshire in Scotland was called Keith Hall and he was also known as Earl of Kintore. The Post Office opened around 1874 as Mount Monster and was renamed Keith in 1904. In 1905 the general sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred (county Subdivision)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland County, New South Wales, Cumberland County in the British Colony of New South Wales. It is still used in other places, including in Australia (in South Australia and the Northern Territory). Other terms for the hundred in English and other languages include ''#wapentake, wapentake'', ''herred'' (Danish and Bokmål, Bokmål Norwegian), ''herad'' (Nynorsk, Nynorsk Norwegian), ''hérað'' (Icelandic), ''härad'' or ''hundare'' (Swedish), ''Harde'' (German), ''hiird'' (North Frisian language, North Frisian), ''satakunta'' or ''kihlakunta'' (Finnish), ''kihelkond'' (Estonian), ''kiligunda'' (Livonian), ''cantref'' (Welsh) and ''sotnia'' (Slavic). In Ireland, a similar subdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwood, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Sherwood is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Boundaries for the locality were created on 16 March 2000 for the “long established name.” Sherwood is served by Emu Flat Road which passes through the locality from the Ngarkat Highway in the east where the highway forms the locality’s eastern boundary to Keith in the west where the road terminates in the Keith town centre. The principal land use in the locality is primary production. A parcel of land at its eastern boundary has protected area status as the Hardings Springs Conservation Reserve. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sherwood had a population of 97 people. Sherwood is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Pendleton
Pendleton may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom *Pendleton, Lancashire, England *Pendleton, Greater Manchester, England ;United States * Pendleton, Indiana *Pendleton, Missouri *Pendleton, New York *Pendleton, Oregon * Pendleton, South Carolina * Pendleton County, Kentucky * Pendleton, Texas * Pendleton County, West Virginia * Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California * Pendleton, Cincinnati, Ohio, a neighborhood Businesses *Pendleton Whisky, a premium Canadian Whisky imported and bottled by Hood River Distillers in Hood River, Oregon * Pendleton Woolen Mills, Pendleton, Oregon, USA, best known for its Indian blankets and usually-plaid woollen shirts *Pendleton's Lithography, Boston, established by William S. Pendleton (1795–1879) and John B. Pendleton (1798–1866) Other uses *Pendleton (name) *SS Pendleton, a tanker ship that broke in two off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts, as depicted in ''The Finest Hours'' * Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, 1883 law of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Stirling
The Hundred of Stirling is a Hundred of the County of Buckingham (South Australia), , Government of South Australia accessdate=19 July 2016. centered on , South east of Adelaide, South Australia. It is in the Area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Shaugh
100 or one hundred ( Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to describe the long hundred of six score or 120. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is "hecto-". 100 is the basis of percentages (''per cent'' meaning "per hundred" in Latin), with 100% being a full amount. 100 is a Harshad number in decimal, and also in base-four, a base in-which it is also a self-descriptive number. 100 is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, from 2 through 23. It is also divisible by the number of primes below it, 25. 100 cannot be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total of coprimes below it, making it a noncototient. 100 has a reduced totient of 20, and an Euler totient of 40. A totient val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of McCallum
The Hundred of McCallum is a cadastral hundred of the County of Buckingham, centered on the rural locality of McCallum and the Ngarkat area in South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor Malcolm Barclay-Harvey in 1939 and named for Thomas McCallum Thomas McCallum (17 March 1860 – 20 April 1938) was a politician in South Australia. History McCallum was born at Langhorne's Creek a son of John McCallum of "Ballindown", and was educated at Glenelg Grammar School for a year, then under a pr ..., member of the South Australian parliament upper house and pastoral pioneer in the Ngarkat area. References McCallum {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makin, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Makin is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Its name and boundaries for the locality were assigned in March 2000 for the portion within the Tatiara District Council while the portion within the Coorong District Council was added in August 2000. Makin’s name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Makin which was named after James Bain Makin (1855-1933), a pastoralist who lived in the vicinity of what is now the hundred. The principal land use in the locality is primary production. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Makin had a population of 30 people. Makin is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council Tatiara District Council is a local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Makin
__NOTOC__ The Hundred of Makin is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Australian state of South Australia within the County of Buckingham and the state government region of the Limestone Coast about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west and south-east respectively of the municipal seats of Bordertown and Tailem Bend. Its extent includes part of the locality of Ngarkat The Ngarkat is a recorded title of a tribal group from South Australia. The Ngarkat lands had linked the mallee peoples of Victoria and South Australia to the river peoples of the Murray River Murraylands. Ngarkat language has been loosely groupe ... in its northern half while its southern half is occupied by the entirety of the locality of Makin along with portions of Coombe and MacCallum in the west and in the east respectively. References Makin Limestone Coast {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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