Hundred of Kadina
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Kadina | |||||||||||||
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  Kadina | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°59′12″S 137°48′02″E / 33.986632°S 137.800601°E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 12 June 1862[2] | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 320 km2 (124 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Daly[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Adjoining hundreds[1] | |||||||||||||
The Hundred of Kadina is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the north-western Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly[3] and was proclaimed by Governor Dominick Daly on 12 June 1862.[2]
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The hundred was named for a Narungga term Gardina which is thought to mean 'lizard plain'.[1] The township of Cunliffe is located in the south western corner of the hundred and the eastern outskirts of the eponymous major township of Kadina cross the mid-western border of the hundred.[1]