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Hundred Of Boolcunda
The Hundred of Boolcunda is a cadastral hundred of the County of Newcastle in South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave in 1876. The principal locality in the hundred is the former township of Willochra. Local government Local government was brought to the entire hundred in 1888 with the establishment of the District Council of Kanyaka. In 1969 Kanyaka amalgamated with Quorn council, bringing the hundred under the governance of the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn. In 1997 the hundred came under the governance of Flinders Ranges Council, with the amalgamation of Kanyaka-Quorn and Hawker councils. History The traditional owners of the area are the Ngadjuri people. The first European explorer to the area was Thomas Burr in September 1842. The site of Willochra was surveyed in 1860 but the town never properly developed and was abandoned during the drought A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R.P. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Newcastle
The County of Newcastle is one of the 49 counties of South Australia spanning the central Flinders Ranges. It was named in 1876 for Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, the eighth Duke of Newcastle. Local government Local government was initiated within the county in 1883 with the establishment of the Corporate Town of Quorn in the Hundred of Pichi Richi in the central south the county. In 1888 the councils of Davenport (later called Woolundunga) and Kanyaka were established, bringing the whole county under local governance. Local government for the western third of the county (west of Dutchmans Range and Middle Range ridge line, that is, the Hundred of Crozier, the west half of the Hundred of Yarrah, the western majority of the Hundred of Wyacca and the western flank of the Hundred of Pichi Richi) was ceded to the state prior to the abolition of the Woolundunga council in the early 1900s. In 1969 Kanyaka and Quorn councils amalgamated, uniting the remaining incorporated easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willochra, South Australia
Willochra is a rural locality and former town in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, surveyed in 1860. It is at the heart of Willochra Plain which stretches approximately from Melrose to the Willochra locality, some distance northeast of Quorn Quorn is a brand of meat substitute products, or the company that makes them. Quorn originated in the UK and is sold primarily in Europe, but is available in 14 countries. The brand is owned by parent company Monde Nissin. Quorn is sold as bo ..., and is bisected by the Willochra Creek. The creek overflows across the plain within the locality of Willochra, being known as the 'Overflow of Willochra Creek'. References Far North (South Australia) {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burr
Thomas Burr (1813–1866), surveyor and mine manager, was a British explorer and Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia 1839–46. Early life in England Born 1813 in England, probably at Kent, Thomas Burr's father was George Dominicus Burr (1786–1855), an esteemed Professor of Mathematics at Sandhurst military college for forty years, 1813–53. Burr embarked on survey and landscape studies under his father, who also taught military surveying. He began survey work in about 1829, subsequently being employed as a civil engineer in London. During that time he married and began a family. Burr was engaged upon surveys under the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 when, upon the recommendation of E.C. Frome, who had been appointed Surveyor General of South Australia a few weeks earlier, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia. Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia Burr took office at London on 29 June 1839, sailing with his family aboard the barq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngadjuri
The Ngadjuri people are a group of Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands lie in the mid north of South Australia with a territory extending from Gawler in the south to Orroroo in the Flinders Ranges in the north. Name Their ethnonym is derived from two words: ''ŋadlu'', meaning 'we' and ''juri'' signifying "man", hence "we men". Language Wilhelm Schmidt proposed that, together with the languages of the Kaurna, Narungga and Nukunu, the Ngadjuri language formed one of the elements of a subgroup he called the Miṟu languages. It is now classified as a member of the Thura-Yura language family. Elements of the vocabulary were recorded by Samuel Le Brun, step-son of one of the Canowie Station proprietors, R. Boucher James. Le Brun, who spent parts of his youth at Canowie in the late 1850s, took an interest in the Aboriginal vocabulary of the district, and in 1886 was among the laymen who made submissions on this topic to a book by Edward Micklethwaite Curr (1820 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Owners
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title to the land by the Crown at the time of sovereignty. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title over the same land. The foundational case for native title in Australia was ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (1992). One year after the recognition of the legal concept of native title in ''Mabo'', the Keating Government formalised the recognition by legislation with the enactment by the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Council Of Hawker
The District Council of Hawker was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 to 1997, centred on the town of Hawker. At its creation it was the northernmost local government area in the state. History It was established on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the ''District Councils Act 1887''. It comprised the hundreds of Arkaba in the County of Hanson, Barndioota and Wonoka in the County of Blachford, and Wirreanda and Yednalue in the County of Granville. Land from each of the hundreds of Adams and Warcowie was added to the District Council on 12 May 1932. In 1936, it was reported to have an estimated population of 975 across an area of 300 square miles. In that year, the council elected a member from five wards, one for each of the initial hundreds. The main industry of the district was wool growing, replacing wheat farming, which had been popular in earlier days. It amalgamated with the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn to form the Flinders Ranges Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders Ranges Council
Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The LGA is approximately 100 km from north to south, and 45 km from east to west, with a total area of 4,198 square kilometres. The main towns within the council are Hawker and Quorn; it also includes the localities of Barndioota, Kanyaka and Stephenston, and part of Bruce, Cradock, Flinders Ranges, Moockra, Saltia, Shaggy Ridge, Wilmington and Yarrah. It was created on 1 January 1997 following the merger of the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn and the District Council of Hawker. The LGA adjoins the following to the south - City of Port Augusta, District Council of Mount Remarkable and District Council of Orroroo Carrieton, while the remainder of the adjoining land is within the unincorporated area of South Australia where municipal services are provided by the Outback Communities Authority. Flinders Ranges Council is entirely in the state electorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Council Of Kanyaka-Quorn
The District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn was a local government area in South Australia that existed from 1969 to 1997. The Council came into existence on 1 April 1969 following the merger of the Corporate Town of Quorn with the surrounding District Council of Kanyaka. It operated out of the former Quorn council's offices. In 1983, the council published a book commemorating 100 years of local government in the district. The Council amalgamated with the District Council of Hawker to form the Flinders Ranges Council Flinders Ranges Council is a local government area (LGA) located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The LGA is approximately 100 km from north to south, and 45 km from east to west, with a total area of 4,198 square kilometres ... on 1 January 1997, which continues to meet out of its former offices. Mayors of Kanyaka-Quorn * John Denton French (1969-1975) * Frank Jesse Flower (1975-1979) * Roy James Deakin (1979-?) References {{Former lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corporate Town Of Quorn
The Corporate Town of Quorn was a local government area in South Australia from 1883 to 1969, centred on the town of Quorn. It was incorporated on 25 October 1883, prior to the 1888 establishment of the rural District Council of Kanyaka, which surrounded the town for most of its history. It consisted of a 171 acre area in Quorn township itself, with parkland surrounding the town subsequently serving as the boundary with the Kanyaka council. It was divided into four wards: North, South, East and West, each represented by two councillors. It gained a small section of the cadastral Hundred of Pichi Richi on 18 April 1888. The council was based out of the Quorn Town Hall from the building's opening in 1891 until 1953, when it moved to a purpose-built standalone council chamber in Seventh Street. The council was responsible for water supply in Quorn from 1898 to 1943, and responsible for electricity supply from 1923 onwards; it generated its own electricity until 1959-60, and resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Council Of Kanyaka
The District Council of Kanyaka was a local government area in South Australia that existed from 1888 to 1969. History The council was established on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the ''District Councils Act 1887''. On creation, the council comprised the hundreds of Boolcunda, Cudlamudla, Kanyaka, Moockra and Palmer, and parts of the hundreds of Pichi Richi, Yarrah and Wyacca, east of the Middle Range and Dutchman's Range ridge line, which together make up the eastern two thirds of the County of Newcastle. The council area thus extended north and east from Pichi Richi Pass (about southwest of Quorn) to a point about due south of Hawker. The council was initially based out of the Quorn Town Hall, but later was housed in an office converted from a house in Eighth Street, Quorn. Both buildings were actually not in the council area, being instead within the Corporate Town of Quorn which was an enclave surrounded by Kanyaka council from 1888. Both the town hall a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Musgrave
Sir Anthony Musgrave (31 August 1828 – 9 October 1888) was a colonial administrator and governor. He died in office as Governor of Queensland in 1888. Early life He was born at St John's, Antigua, the third of 11 children of Anthony Musgrave and Mary Harris Sheriff. After education in Antigua and Great Britain, he was appointed private secretary to Robert James Mackintosh, governor-in-chief of the Leeward Islands in 1854. He was recognised for his "capacity and zeal", and quickly promoted, administering in turn the British West Indies territories of Nevis and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Musgrave was born to a slaveholding family. His father and uncles, were slaveholders who were compensated for their slaves upon the emancipation of slavery in the 1830s. British North America After ten years of colonial service in the Caribbean, Musgrave was appointed governor of Newfoundland in September, 1864. Unlike his previous appointments, Newfoundland had responsible governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Wyacca
The County of Newcastle is one of the 49 counties of South Australia spanning the central Flinders Ranges. It was named in 1876 for Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, the eighth Duke of Newcastle. Local government Local government was initiated within the county in 1883 with the establishment of the Corporate Town of Quorn in the Hundred of Pichi Richi in the central south the county. In 1888 the councils of Davenport (later called Woolundunga) and Kanyaka were established, bringing the whole county under local governance. Local government for the western third of the county (west of Dutchmans Range and Middle Range ridge line, that is, the Hundred of Crozier, the west half of the Hundred of Yarrah, the western majority of the Hundred of Wyacca and the western flank of the Hundred of Pichi Richi) was ceded to the state prior to the abolition of the Woolundunga council in the early 1900s. In 1969 Kanyaka and Quorn councils amalgamated, uniting the remaining incorporated easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
