Hundred of Yatala
Yatala South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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The Dry Creek watercourse in the suburb of Walkley Heights | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°49′S 138°40′E / 34.82°S 138.66°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 29 October 1846 | ||||||||||||||
County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Yatala is a
Etymology
Contemporary Australian linguists believe the name "Yatala" is derived from "yartala", a Kaurna word which likely means "water running by the side of a river" or "inundation" or "cascade" or similar.[7][6] South Australian historian Geoff Manning has implied that this refers to the swampy morass that occurred when heavy rain inundated the usually-dry plain either side of Dry Creek.[5] The descriptive term "yartala" is thought to have been "co-opted by the colonists [as "Yatala"] in their endeavours to name [various] things including a government schooner,"[7] the Yatala, in 1865.
According to
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Local government
The
As various parts of the original
The following local government areas of South Australia are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the hundred as of 2017[update]:
- City of Salisbury (except portion north of the Little Para River)
- City of Tea Tree Gully
- Port Wakefield Road, approximating the former City of Enfield)
- Henley Beach Road)
- City of Prospect
- City of Adelaide (portion north of the River Torrens)
- Town of Walkerville
Parts of the
See also
References
- ^ "Hundred of Yatala". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. SA0030790. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ "South Australia hundred maps (Yatala)". Surveyor General's Office. 1957. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
- JSTOR 10.20851/j.ctt1sq5wgq.18. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ a b Geoff, Manning (1990). "Manning's Place Names of South Australia". Manning Index of South Australian History. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
A Kaurna tribal word meaning 'water running by the side of a river'. In winter, when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-921536-57-1,
Yatala most likely derives from yertalla 'water running by the side of a river; inundation; cascade'. As Manning (1986:238) observes 'in winter when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass'.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-921536-57-1
- ^ The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. 1936. p. 32.
According to Mr. [Rodney] Cockburn "Yatala" was the name applied by the Weera tribe of aborigines to the country north of the Torrens to the Little Para.
- ^ Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. Retrieved 23 February 2016.