Hundred of Barunga
Hundred of Barunga | |||||||||||||
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Grain silos beside railway track at Snowtown | |||||||||||||
Hundred of Barunga | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°43′S 138°10′E / 33.72°S 138.17°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 15 July 1869 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 330 km2 (129 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Daly | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Barunga is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia on the approximate area of the Barunga Range, centred on Bald Hill. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly. It was named in 1869 by Governor James Fergusson after an indigenous term meaning gap in the range. See Barunga Range § Etymology
The following localities and towns of the Wakefield Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Barunga:
- Snowtown (most part)
- Hope Gap
- Mundoora (southeast quadrant only)
- Lake View (western half)
- Burnsfield (western half)
- Wokurna (eastern half)
- Barunga Gap (northern half)