Hundred Of Erskine
The Hundred of Erskine is a hundred in the County of Dalhousie, South Australia. The hundred was established 1876 but contains no townships. Once regarded as 'governmental wasteland', it has been settled by pastoralists for over 150 years. The land in the hundred has been used to grow cattle and sheep, as well as cereal crops including wheat, barley and oats. The closest town to the hundred is Orroroo. The Hundred of Erskine borders the Hundred of Walloway to the West, the Hundred of Yalpara to the North, the Hundred of Cavenagh and Hundred of Coglin to the East and the Hundred of Morgan to the South. History The land in the hundred was first sold in 1879. Stories There are a number of stories from the early settlers of the area. 1. Early settler James Craig Jr was sinking a well on his property with dynamite. The charge he used didn't go off, so Craig went to investigate. As he was descending into the well the charge exploded, propelling him 70ft into the air. He died l ...
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Hundred Of Erskine, 1886 (22312696073)
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 ...
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Hundred (county Division)
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 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'', ''herred'' (Danish and Bokmål Norwegian), ''herad'' ( Nynorsk Norwegian), ''hérað'' (Icelandic), ''härad'' or ''hundare'' (Swedish), ''Harde'' (German), ''hiird'' ( North Frisian), ''satakunta'' or ''kihlakunta'' (Finnish), ''kihelkond'' (Estonian), ''kiligunda'' (Livonian), '' cantref'' (Welsh) and ''sotnia'' (Slavic). In Ireland, a similar subdivision of counties is referred to as a barony, and a hundred is a subdivision of a pa ...
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County Of Dalhousie (South Australia)
The County of Dalhousie is one of the Lands administrative divisions of South Australia, 49 cadastral counties of South Australia in straddling the Mid North and Flinders Ranges regions. It was proclaimed in 1871 by Governor Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, James Fergusson and was named for Fergusson's father-in-law James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie. Local government The first local government in the county was the District Council of Yongala, established 1883, covering the Hundred of Yongala in the county's south east corner. The Corporate Town of Peterborough was established by separation from Yongala in 1886. Local government in the rest of the county was established in 1888 by the creation of the District Council of Orroroo at Orroroo, South Australia, Orroroo and the District Council of Carrieton at Carrieton, South Australia, Carrieton. They were created by the passage of the District Councils Act 1887 on 5 January 1888. As part of the same legislation in action ...
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Government Of South Australia
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or more formally, His Majesty’s Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia. It is modelled on the Westminster system of government, which is governed by an elected parliament. History Until 1857, the Province of South Australia was ruled by a Governor responsible to the British Crown. The Government of South Australia was formed in 1857, as prescribed in its Constitution created by the Constitution Act 1856 (an act of parliament of the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under Queen Victoria), which created South Australia as a self-governing colony rather than being a province governed from Britain. Since the federation of Australia in 1901, South Australia has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, which is a constitutional monarchy, and the Constitution of Australia regulates the state of South A ...
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Hundred Of Walloway
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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Hundred Of Yalpara
The Hundred of Yalpara is a hundred in the County of Dalhousie, South Australia. The hundred was established 1876 and a government town called Brassey was laid out, though it never developed into a township. The hundred is largely occupied by the locality of Yalpara but a portion of Minburra crosses the western border. See also *Yalpara, South Australia __NOTOC__ Yalpara is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Orroroo. Geography The boundaries of Yalpara were created on 16 De ... References Yalpara {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ...
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Hundred Of Cavenagh
The Hundred of Cavenagh refers to a cadastral unit. It could be * Hundred of Cavenagh (Northern Territory) * Hundred of Cavenagh (South Australia) County of Herbert is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land to the east of the Flinders Ranges about north-east of the town of Peterborough. It was proclaimed in 1877 and named after a prominent ...

Hundred Of Coglin
The Hundred of Coglin is a hundred within the County of Herbert, South Australia and proclaimed in 1878. The main town of the hundred was Dawson, South Australia with Oodla Wirra, South Australia Oodla Wirra (formerly Penn) is a small town in the upper Mid North of South Australia. It is on the Barrier Highway approximately halfway from Adelaide to Broken Hill. When the railway was built in 1880, a siding was provided, named Oodla Wirra. ... lying just outside of the hundred. References Coglin {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ...
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Hundred Of Morgan
The Hundred of Morgan is a hundred in the County of Dalhousie, South Australia. The hundred was established 1876 but has no townships. References Morgan Morgan may refer to: People and fictional characters * Morgan (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Morgan le Fay, a powerful witch in Arthurian legend * Morgan (surname), a surname of Welsh origin * Morgan (singer), ...

Orroroo
Orroroo may refer to: * Orroroo, South Australia, a town and locality * Orroroo Enterprise, a former newspaper in South Australia *District Council of Orroroo, a former local government area in South Australia See also *District Council of Orroroo Carrieton The District Council of Orroroo Carrieton is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The principal towns are Orroroo and Carrieton; it also includes the localities of Belton, Black Rock, Coomooroo, Erski ...

Dawlish, South Australia
Dawlish is a former government town whose site is located in the locality of Erskine north of Peterborough, South Australia. The area is arid and although a town was laid out,Frazer S. Crawford, Dawlish : Hundred of Erskine (Adelaide, 1882). on 8 June 1882 but it never developed. ''"In 1964, as there was no demand for allotments, the few that had been sold were acquired compulsorily by the Crown and reverted back to broad acres."'' South Australian Names
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Erskine, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Erskine is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Orroroo. Its boundaries were created on 16 December 1999 for the “long established name” and includes the site of the now-ceased Government Town of Dawlish. Its name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Erskine which it shares with the locality of Orroroo and which was named after William West-Erskine, a former member of the South Australian Parliament. Land use within the locality is ’primary production’ and is concerned with “agricultural production and the grazing of stock on relatively large holdings.” Some land in its south has been gazetted as a protected area known as the Black Rock Conservation Park. Erskine is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the local government area of the District Council of Orroroo Carrie ...
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