The Hundred of Nash is a cadastral hundred 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 spanning

Fowler's Bay Fowlers Bay, formerly known as Yalata, is a bay, town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north-west of the state capital, Adelaide. The town is located on Port Eyre, at the western end of the larger Fowlers B ...

. The hundred was proclaimed in 1890 by Governor Kintore and named for a contemporary member of the state parliament,

Benjamin Nash Benjamin Nash (5 March 1829 – 19 April 1890) was a tailor and politician in colonial South Australia. He was born in Birmingham and emigrated to Melbourne in 1857 but in July, after only a few months in the gold diggings, moved to Rundle Stre ...

. The land in the hundred is very sparsely populated. As such the hundred has never been subject to dedicated local government and the local community receive municipal services are provided by the Outback Communities Authority. Nash 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 ...

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