The Hundred of Catt is a cadastral

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

in the

County of Way The County of Way is one of the 49 counties of South Australia on the state's west coast. It was proclaimed circa 1889 by Governor William Robinson and named for Samuel Way, the Chief Justice of the state's Supreme Court at the time. It cover ...

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established in 1889. It was named for

Alfred Catt Alfred Catt (19 December 1833 – 28 October 1919) was a South Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1881 to 1902, representing the electorates of Stanley (1881-1884) and Gladstone (1884-1902). H ...

, member of the state parliament from 1881 to 1902. The Hundred of Catt (together with the Hundreds of Bartlett, Horn and Moule) were surveyed for closer settlement by William Richard Murray, E B Jones and H J Cant between Nov. 1888 and June 1889. The centre of the hundred is due west of

Koonibba Koonibba is a locality and an associated Aboriginal community in South Australia located about northwest of the state capital of Adelaide and about northwest of the municipal seat in Ceduna and north of the Eyre Highway. The settlement ...

Mission and about west north west of

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by road, on the far west coast of

. Part of the northern boundary of the hundred shared with

Yumbarra Conservation Park Yumbarra Conservation Park, formerly the Yumbarra National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about north of the town centre of Ceduna. To the north it borders Yellabinna Regional Reserve; to the eas ...

. Localities within the hundred are Watraba (most part), White Well Corner,

(part), and Uworra. The

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 ...

of the land within the hundred are the Wirangu people.

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Catt Catt or CATT may refer to: People *Alfred Catt (1833–1919), Australian parliamentarian * Anthony Catt (1933–2018), English cricketer *Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), American women's suffrage leader *Helena Catt, New Zealand public servant an ...

1889 establishments in Australia