The Hundred of Lacepede is a cadastral
hundred of the
County of MacDonnell
The County of MacDonnell is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1857 and named for the South Australian Governor at the time of proclamation, Richard Graves MacDonnell. It is located in the upper south-east ...
on the
Limestone Coast
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,
South Australia
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.
It gave its name to the
District Council of Lacepede and is centered on the town of
Kingston SE, South Australia, near
Lacepede Bay.
The
traditional owners are the
Ngarrindjeri
The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belo ...
people, who originally lived along the
Coorong. The first
European
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to explore this stretch of coastline was the French explorer
Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (; 17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific.
Biography
Early career
Born a comm ...
, who discovered
Lacepede Bay in 1802.
References
Lacepede
1874 establishments in Australia
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