Hundred of Horn

The Hundred of Horn is a cadastral hundred of South Australia located in the remote County of Way.[1]

Map of the County of Way in South Australia

Location

It overlooks the Great Australian Bight about 585 kilometres (364 miles) north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about 34 kilometres (21 miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna.[2][3]

By one reading of the book Gulliver's Travels, the hundred would be the closest inhabited place to the location of the fictitious island of Lilliput[4][5]

History

The traditional owners of the area were the Wirangu Aboriginal people and the first European to sight the area was Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts, in 1627 in the Gulden Zeepaard. The area is the limit of his map indicating he turned around at about this location.

In 1802 Matthew Flinders came past the district whilst on his voyage in the Investigator,[6]

The Hundred of Horn (together with the Hundreds of Bartlett, Moule and Catt) were surveyed for closer settlement by William Richard Murray, E B Jones and H J Cant between Nov. 1888 and June 1889. The Hundred was named after William A Horn MP (1841-1922) and purchased Maryvale Station of Eyre Peninsula. The Hundred was proclaimed on 17 Jan 1889.

References
  1. "Placename Details: Hundred of Catt". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0012901. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2017. Derivation of Name: Hon A Catt MP
  2. Charra, South Australia.
  3. "Charra, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  4. Bracher, Frederick (1944). "The Maps in 'Gulliver's Travels'". Huntington Library Quarterly. University of California Press. 8 (1): 67–68. JSTOR 3815865.
  5. Case, Arthur E. (1945). "The Geography and Chronology of Gulliver's Travels". Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 50–68.
  6. District Council of Streaky Bay (2 May 2006). "Streaky Bay: Our History". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 23 June 2007.


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