The Barunga Range is a range of hills in the northern
Mount Lofty Ranges
The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...
starting near
Clements Gap and
Merriton in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
's
Mid North
The Mid North is a region of South Australia, north of the Adelaide Plains and south of the Far North and the outback. It is generally accepted to extend from Spencer Gulf east to the Barrier Highway, including the coastal plain, the southern ...
.
At the range's southern end it merges with
Hummock Range
The Hummocks or Hummock Range is a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges extending north from the eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is traversed by the Copper Coast Highway immediately west of where it passes arou ...
at
Barunga Gap, approximately south west of
Snowtown. The name 'Barunga' derives from an indigenous term meaning "gap in the range".
The Barunga and Hummock ranges are host to the
Clements Gap and
Snowtown wind farms.
Etymology
According to the Australian Biospecimen Network Association, ''Barunga'' is an indigenous term meaning "gap in the range",
but South Australian historian
Geoffrey Manning instead states it means "place for meat".
The term was also used to name Barunga Hill, north west of
Snowtown, and Barunga Creek, which flows off from Barunga Range to the south west of Snowtown. The term was also used in turn to name the cadastral
Hundred of Barunga
The Hundred of Barunga is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia on the approximate area of the Barunga Range, centred on Bald Hill. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly. It was named in 1869 by Gove ...
(established 1869) which approximates the area of the Barunga Range.
References
Mountain ranges of South Australia
Geology of South Australia
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