The Hundred of Giles is a cadastral hundred (administrative division) in the

County of Kintore The County of Kintore is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. Located on the state's west coast, it was proclaimed in 1890 and named for the Governor Algernon Keith-Falconer. Hundreds The County of Kintore contains the following 8 hund ...

, South Australia on the southeastern fringe of the Nullarbor Plain. The hundred was proclaimed in 1890 by Governor Kintore and named for a contemporary member of the state parliament, Clement Giles. The land in the hundred is very sparsely populated. As such the hundred has never been subject to dedicated local government and is instead locally administered by the Outback Communities Authority. Giles and its neighbouring hundred, Magarey, are within the bounded locality of

Bookabie Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the town centre of Ced ...

. A portion of the

Chadinga Conservation Park Chadinga Conservation Park, formerly the Chadinga Conservation Reserve, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Chadinga Dunes on the western side of Lake MacDonnell, in the locality of Penong. The park is ...

is within the Hundred of Giles. Eyre Bluff (alternatively known as Point Eyre, Cap Lebrun or Cap Van-Spaendonck) is the only major geographic feature along the southern coastline within the hundred.

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{{reflist Giles 1890 establishments in Australia