County of Carnarvon (South Australia)

This article is about the cadastral unit in South Australia. For the historic county in Wales, see Caernarfonshire. For the cadastral unit in Western Australia, see Carnarvon County.

Carnarvon
Cadastral division
Remarkable Rocks formation in Flinders Chase within the Hundred of McDonald
Carnarvon
Coordinates: 35°48′29″S 137°17′04″E / 35.807920°S 137.284350°E / -35.807920; 137.284350
CountryAustralia
StateSouth Australia
RegionFleurieu and Kangaroo Island
LGA
Established1874 (1874)
Lands administrative divisions around Carnarvon
Ocean Investigator Strait Hindmarsh
Ocean Carnarvon Ocean
Ocean Ocean Ocean
Coordinates

County of Carnarvon is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia which covers the full extent of Kangaroo Island. It was proclaimed in 1874 by Governor Musgrave in response to the demand for agriculture land on Kangaroo Island.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.