Hundred of Wiltunga
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Wiltunga | |||||||||||||
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  Wiltunga | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°48′40″S 137°58′52″E / 33.811°S 137.981°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 31 December 1874 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 280 km2 (110 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Daly | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Wiltunga is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia west of the Barunga Range. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly[1] and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave on the last day of 1874.[2]
The hundred name is officially believed to derive from an indigenous term wiltonga, meaning 'place of the eagles'.[2] The township of Bute lies near the southern border of the hundred and locality bounds cover most of the hundred. The eastern flank of Alford locality and southern flank of Wokurna locality are also within the hundred
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