Nantawarra is a locality in
South Australia
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located about north of the
Adelaide city centre and within the local government area known as the
Wakefield Regional Council
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Geography
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. The locality occupies land on both sides of
Highway 1
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between
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in the south and
Snowtown
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in the north.
[ Nantawarra is recognisable from a distance by the presence of grain silos immediately just east of the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The name Nantawarra may derive from the word ''nantuwara'' (meaning a northern yerta, or family group) in ]Kaurna
The Kaurna people (, ; also Coorna, Kaura, Gaurna and other variations) are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. They were known as the Adelaide tribe by the early settlers. Kaurn ...
, the language of the indigenous people of this part of South Australia.
Traditional occupants
According to the ''Manning Index of South Australian History'' the " Nantuwwara ictribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the River Wakefield
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, north to Whitwarta and west to Hummock Range
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", an area which would encompass the modern localities of Bowmans, Whitwarta, Goyder, Beaufort Beaufort may refer to:
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, Nantawarra and Mount Templeton. The term Nantuwara (or Nantuwaru) is considered to be a specific name for the northern hordes of the Kaurna
The Kaurna people (, ; also Coorna, Kaura, Gaurna and other variations) are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. They were known as the Adelaide tribe by the early settlers. Kaurn ...
people. Stone implements thought to have been used by the Nantuwara people were discovered at sites adjoining the banks of the lower reaches of the River Wakefield and added to a South Australian Museum collection curated by Harold Cooper in the 1960s.
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
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*Railway accidents in South Australia
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*Yorke Peninsula Field Days
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References
Towns in South Australia
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