Wallaroo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 12 June 1862 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 320 km2 (124 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Copper Coast | ||||||||||||||
Region | Yorke Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
County | Daly | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wallaroo is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the Copper Coast of South Australia. [1] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly. [2] It was named in 1862 by Governor Dominick Daly [1] after the indigenous term wadla warru presumed to mean wallaby urine. [1]
The most densely populated town and localities of the Copper Coast council are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Wallaroo:
Derivation of Name: Corruption of Abna wadla warru; Other Details: Area 124 square miles. Wadla warru means wallaby's urine twisted to wallawaroo then to wallaroo.