Wallaroo South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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![]() 1874 boundaries of Wallaroo Town shown on an excerpt of an 1888 map of the hundred | |||||||||||||||
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: