The Hundred of Mobilong 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 ...

on the west bank of the

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 ...

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and centred on

Murray Bridge Murray Bridge may refer to. *Murray Bridge, South Australia, a city and locality *Rural City of Murray Bridge, a local government area in South Australia *Corporate Town of Murray Bridge, a former local government area in South Australia See also ...

. One of the ten hundreds of the

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, it is bounded on the east entirely by the Murray River. It was created in 1860 by Governor Richard MacDonnell from a portion of the former

Hundred of the Murray The Hundred of the Murray (later called Hundred of Murray) was a cadastral hundred in South Australia spanning land two miles either side of the navigable portion of the Murray River in the 1850s and 1860s. The hundred was gazetted on 10 Novemb ...

, which covered lands beside the Murray River for more than of its course from mouth to

Waikerie Waikerie ( ) is a rural town in the Riverland region of South Australia on the south bank of the Murray River. At the , Waikerie had a population of 2,684. The Sturt Highway passes to the south of the town at the top of the cliffs. There is a ca ...

. It was named after an aboriginal name for the swamplands in the vicinity on the west bank of the Murray.

Etymology

According to South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning, the word ''Mobilong'' is a corruption of the Aboriginal term ''mupulawangk'', meaning "soft reed place" as "reeds along the

urray Urray ( gd, Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish, consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ros ...

river bank were used in the making of coiled baskets." Index compiled based on ''Mobilong'' was also the original name for the early township of

and is the present name for the suburb of Mobilong, which covers the Mobilong Swamp area immediately north of the city centre.

Localities

The following localities and suburbs of the Murray Bridge Council area are situated inside (or partly inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Mobilong: * Tepko (southern half only) * Caloote (southern half only) * Wall Flat (southern half only) * Woodlane * Pallamana * Mypolonga * Murray Bridge North *

Toora Toora is a small farming town in Victoria, Australia whose main industry is dairy farming. It is located at the top of Corner Inlet opposite Wilsons Promontory National Park. In the the population was 681. History The Post Office opened on ...

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* Mobilong *

* White Hill *

Monarto South Monarto South is a locality in South Australia west of the Murray River and south east by road from Adelaide. The Monarto South railway station is north of the South Eastern Freeway between the Callington and Murray Bridge exits, but the local ...

(north east portion only) * Gifford Hill * Murray Bridge South * Swanport * Riverglen

Local government

The

District Council of Mobilong The District Council of Mobilong was a local government area in South Australia from 1884 to 1977. It was proclaimed on 26 June 1884, comprising the cadastral Hundred of Mobilong. The first meeting was held on 12 July 1884 in the Murray Bridg ...

was established in 1884, bringing local government to the hundred. From 1924 to 1977 the

Corporate Town of Murray Bridge The Corporate Town of Murray Bridge was a local government area in South Australia from 1924 to 1977. It was established in February 1924, when the town of Murray Bridge was severed from the District Council of Mobilong, of which it had been the c ...

formed a second separate local government body within the hundred, and the district council expanded to govern most of land encapsulated by the easterly neighbouring hundreds of Burdett and Ettrick as well as land in the south neighbouring Hundred of Brinkley. The town and district councils merged in 1977 to bring the hundred back under the governance of an expanded single body called the

District Council of Murray Bridge The Rural City of Murray Bridge is a Local government in Australia, local government area of South Australia centred on the regional city of Murray Bridge, South Australia, Murray Bridge and stretching south to Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, ...

References

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