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County Of Chandos
The County of Chandos is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1893 and named by Governor Kintore for the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville who was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1867. It covers a large portion of the southern Mallee region, adjacent to the state border with Victoria in the state's south east. The Pinnaroo railway line traverses the north of the county, passing from west to east from Parrakie through Pinnaroo into Victoria. Hundreds The county is divided into the following 12 hundreds, with Ngarkat Conservation Park lying outside the gazetted hundreds along the southern border of the county. In the north (from west to east): * Hundred of Auld (Sandalwood) * Hundred of Billiatt ( Billiat) * Hundred of Kingsford ( Kringin, Peebinga, Karte) * Hundred of Peebinga ( Kringin, Peebinga, Karte) In the centre (from west to east): * Hundred of Cotton ( Par ...
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Pinnaroo, South Australia
Pinnaroo is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, near the border with Victoria, 243 km east of Adelaide. Pinnaroo is on the north side of the Mallee Highway, and on the railway line between Tailem Bend and Ouyen. The roadhouse on the highway at Pinnaroo is the first "food and leg-stretch" stop on the bus route from Adelaide to Sydney. At the 2016 census, the locality of Pinnaroo had a population of 712 of which 547 lived in and around its town centre. History The town's name is derived from a word for "big man" in a local Aboriginal language. The railway arrived in the area in 1906. There had not been any significant development in the area before that, as the remoteness and difficulty of getting supplies in and produce out had made it uneconomic to farm before that. Economy The railway is not currently available for transport between the states, as the line from Tailem Bend was converted to standard gauge and more recently mothballed forcing grain ...
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Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke Of Buckingham And Chandos
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (10 September 1823 – 26 March 1889), styled Earl Temple until 1839 and Marquess of Chandos from 1839 to 1861, was a British soldier, politician and administrator of the 19th century. He was a close friend and subordinate of Benjamin Disraeli and served as the Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1867 to 1868 and Governor of Madras from 1875 to 1880. Buckingham was the only son of Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the British Army, eventually rising to become a colonel. Buckingham entered politics, as Lord Chandos, in 1846 when he was elected unopposed from Buckinghamshire as a candidate of the Conservative Party. Buckingham served as Member of Parliament from 1846 to 1857, when he resigned. He contested a re-election in 1859, but lost. Buckingham served in various political offices ...
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Hundred Of Kingsford
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 value of ...
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Billiat, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Billiatt is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the south-east of the state in the Murray Mallee region about north-east of the state capital of Adelaide. Its boundaries were created on 28 September 2000 for the "long established local name". Its name is derived from the Billiatt Conservation Park and the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Billiatt. The principal land use within the locality is conservation with the majority of its land area being occupied by the Billiatt Wilderness Protection Area. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Billiatt had a population of zero. Billiatt is located within the federal Division of Barker and the state electoral district of Chaffey and the local government area of the District Council of Loxton Waikerie The District Council of Loxton Waikerie is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. The counci ...
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Hundred Of Billiatt
The County of Chandos is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1893 and named by Governor Kintore for the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville who was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1867. It covers a large portion of the southern Mallee region, adjacent to the state border with Victoria in the state's south east. The Pinnaroo railway line traverses the north of the county, passing from west to east from Parrakie through Pinnaroo into Victoria. Hundreds The county is divided into the following 12 hundreds, with Ngarkat Conservation Park lying outside the gazetted hundreds along the southern border of the county. In the north (from west to east): * Hundred of Auld (Sandalwood) * Hundred of Billiatt ( Billiat) * Hundred of Kingsford ( Kringin, Peebinga, Karte) * Hundred of Peebinga ( Kringin, Peebinga, Karte) In the centre (from west to east): * Hundred of Cotton ( Parra ...
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Sandalwood, South Australia
Sandalwood is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about east of the state capital of Adelaide. Sandalwood lies between Karoonda and Alawoona on the Karoonda Highway and Loxton railway line. It was founded as a siding on the new railway line, which opened in 1913. The post office opened in 1914, and the school in 1919. These have now all closed. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sandalwood had a population of 60 people. Sandalwood is located in the local government area of District Council of Karoonda East Murray, the state electoral district of Hammond and the federal Division of Barker The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member div .... References {{authority control Towns in South Australia
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Hundred Of Auld
The Hundred of Auld, is a hundred in the County of Chandos, South Australia.The Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group Inc. of South AustraliaThe Counties & Hundreds of South Australia History The traditional owners of the Hundred of Auld are the Ngargad Australian Aboriginal tribes. The hundred was founded in 1912. References Auld Auld is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alex Auld (born 1981), Canadian hockey player * Andrew Auld (1799–1873), Scottish ship's carpenter in Hawaii * Andy Auld (1900–1977), Scottish-American soccer player * Bertie Auld ...
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Ngarkat Conservation Park
Ngarkat Conservation Park is a protected area located in South Australia's south-eastern corner about south east of the Adelaide city centre. The conservation park was proclaimed in 1979 "to conserve the mallee heath habitat of the 90 Mile Desert". On 27 May 2004, the following conservation parks which adjoined the boundaries of the Ngarkat Conservation Park were incorporated into the conservation park and then abolished - Mount Rescue Conservation Park, Mount Shaugh Conservation Park and Scorpion Springs Conservation Park. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area. The conservation park occupies in land in a number of gazetted localities with the majority being in Ngarkat and the remainder being in Parilla, Parrakie and Pinnaroo. See also * Ngarkat Highway * Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area * Mallee emu-wren The mallee emu-wren (''Stipiturus mallee'') is a species of bird in the Australasian wren f ...
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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 ...
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Parrakie, South Australia
Parrakie, South Australia is a small town on the Mallee Highway and Pinnaroo railway line approximately 26 kilometres west of Lameroo. The name is derived from the Aboriginal word ''perki'' which means cave or limestone sink hole. The town was surveyed in 1907. The town is surrounded by large properties growing mostly cereal grains and livestock. There is a Lutheran Church, town hall, post office and payphone. There is also a cricket club and tennis courts on the other side of the railway line, south of the town. A primary school opened in 1910 and closed in 1964. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Parrakie had a population of 105. Parrakie is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Hammond and the local government area of the Southern Mallee District Council The Southern Mallee District Council is a local government area in the Murray and Mallee region of South Australia. The council offices ...
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Pinnaroo Railway Line, South Australia
The Pinnaroo railway line ran east from the Adelaide to Melbourne line at Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo near the South Australia / Victoria state border. The route continues into Victoria via the Victorian Railways line to Ouyen where it joined the Mildura line. History The line opened from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo on 14 September 1906, being extended to the state border on 29 July 1915. When the Adelaide to Wolseley line was closed east of Tailem Bend for gauge conversion, the Pinnaroo line became part of the main line between Adelaide and Melbourne for two weeks in April 1995. Journey times increased by 10 to 12 hours. In May 1995, it was announced that the line west of Pinnaroo would be gauge converted from broad gauge to standard gauge. Work on the conversion of the line was delayed until 1996, due to a large grain crop and increased traffic by trains destined for Tocumwal and Yarrawonga in regional Victoria that were on the broad gauge network. A small part of the line ...
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ...
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