The Hundred of Bartlett is a cadastral hundred of

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located in the remote

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. 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

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. By one reading of the book ''

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'', the hundred is the closest inhabited place to the location of the fictitious island of Lilliput.

History

The traditional owners of the area were the Wirangu Aboriginal people and the first European to sight the area was Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts in 1627 in the Gulden Zeepaard. In 1802

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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

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