The Hundred of Finniss is a
cadastral
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
unit of
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 South Australia on the west bank of the lower
Murray River
The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest r ...
.
It is one of the ten hundreds of the
County of Sturt
The County of Sturt is one of the Lands administrative divisions of South Australia, 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in 1842 and named for early Australian explorer, Charles Sturt. It stretches ...
. The main population centre in the hundred is the township of
Mannum
Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide. At the 2016 census, the urban area of Mannum had a population of 2,398. Mannum is the seat of the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in the ...
, a river port. Apart from Mannum and
Port Mannum, other localities within the hundred are
Punthari in the north,
Frayville and
Apamurra in the west, the riverside hamlets of
Pellaring Flat and
Zadows Landing in the east, and parts of
Wall Flat,
Milendella,
Tepko, and
Caloote.
References
Finniss
1860 establishments in Australia
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