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Hundred Of Bartlett
The Hundred of Bartlett is a cadastral Hundred (county division), hundred of South Australia located in the remote County of Way. It was created in 1889. Location It overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about west of the town centre of Ceduna, South Australia, Ceduna. By one reading of the book ''Gulliver's Travels'', the hundred is the closest inhabited place to the location of the fictitious island of Lilliput and Blefuscu, Lilliput. History The traditional owners of the area were the Wirangu language, Wirangu Aboriginal people and the first European to sight the area was Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts in 1627 in the Gulden Zeepaard. In 1802 Matthew Flinders came past the district whilst on his voyage in the Investigator,. The Hundred of Bartlett (together with the Hundreds of Moule, Horn and Catt) were surveyed for closer settlement by William Richard Murray, E B Jones and H J Cant between Nov. 1888 and June 1889. References< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Way, South Australia
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and ''zhupa'' in Slavic languages; terms equivalent to commune/community are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires;Vision of Britai– Type details for ancient county. Retrieved 31 March 2012 many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
