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....Correction by Spiro: Arcadia does not mean "quiet rural simplicity" it is a photogenic Greek word (also the name of the State of Arcadia in Greece" and the word is subject to debate over its meaning for Greek scholars, one theory explains the word as deriving from the word ARCAS which means INDIGENOUS and ARCADIA as the land of indigenous, that is my favorite explanation for the Australian name. Personally I also think that the name comes from the resemblance of the valley it self to the "typical" Peloponnesean valleys that you find in Arcadia Greece. http://www.arcadians.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:-q&catid=89