Hundred of Balaklava
Balaklava | |||||||||||||
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Balaklava main street at the northeast corner of the hundred | |||||||||||||
Balaklava | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°13′52″S 138°21′29″E / 34.231°S 138.358°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||
| Established | 22 May 1856 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 280 km2 (110 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Balaklava is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains in South Australia immediately south of the Wakefield River. It is one of the eight hundreds of the County of Gawler. It was named in 1856 by Governor Dominick Daly after the Crimean War Battle of Balaklava. The township of Balaklava is at the extreme north east corner of the hundred.
The following localities of the Wakefield council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Balaklava:
- Balaklava (western quadrant south of Wakefield River only)
- Saints
- Erith
- Kallora (eastern half)
- Avon
- Pinery (western half)
- Long Plains (northern half)