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Wallerberdina is a
locality in the Australian state of
South Australia located about north of the state capital of
Adelaide and about west of the town of
Hawker
Hawker or Hawkers may refer to:
Places
* Hawker, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
* Hawker, South Australia, a town
* Division of Hawker, an Electoral Division in South Australia
* Hawker Island, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarct ...
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It is located on the plain between
Lake Torrens in the west and the
Flinders Ranges in the east. Its boundaries approximate those of the cadastral unit of the
Hundred of Warrakimbo
County of Blachford is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land between the east coast of Lake Torrens and the western side of the Flinders Ranges about north-east of the city of Port Augusta. I ...
.
The
traditional owners of the area are the
Banggarla peoples.
[This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, by David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. This map also divides Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East, Rainforest, Northeast, Eyre, Riverine, Southeast, Spencer and Tasmania).]
The
2016 Australian census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an incre ...
which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wallerberdina and two adjoining localities had no people living within the boundaries of the geographic classification known as the State Suburb of Wallerberdina.
Wallerberdina is located within the federal division of
Grey, the state electoral district of
Giles, the
Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and the state government region of the
Far North.
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Mount Eyre
The site of the government town of Mount Eyre () is located at the south end of the locality on the north-west side of the route of the Marree railway line. It was surveyed during January 1863 and the land sale began on 14 May 1863. Its name is derived from ''Mount Eyre'' which was "the northernmost point of Eyre's 1839 expedition and named by Governor Gawler
Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler, KH, (21 July 1795 – 7 May 1869) was the second Governor of South Australia, at the same time serving as Resident Commissioner, from 17 October 1838 until 15 May 1841.
Biography Early life
Gawler, born on 21 ...
on 11 July 1839."
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Towns in South Australia
Far North (South Australia)
Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia
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