Hundred of Wallaroo
Wallaroo | |||||||||||||
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1874 boundaries of Wallaroo Town shown on an excerpt of an 1888 map of the hundred | |||||||||||||
Wallaroo | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°59′42″S 138°39′07″E / 33.995°S 138.652°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke Peninsula | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 12 June 1862 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 320 km2 (124 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Daly | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wallaroo is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the Copper Coast of South Australia. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly. It was named in 1862 by Governor Dominick Daly after the indigenous term wadla warru presumed to mean wallaby urine.