The Hundred of Campbell is a cadastral hundred of the

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in South Australia. The main town in the hundred is Maryvale.

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Wirangu and Nauo people, both speakers of the Wirangu language. The first European to sight the area was Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts, in 1627 in the

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, and, in 1802,

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on his voyage in the Investigator. Flinders named the nearby

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. The first European land exploration was that of

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and Samuel Stephens in 1839, followed by Edward John Eyre in the same year.

References

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