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- 1 2 "Proclamation - District of Willunga" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (33 ed.). Government of South Australia. 1853. 18 August 1853. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
On the north the said district of Willunga is bounded by the Onkaparinga River from the mouth thereof, up to the south-east boundary line of the Hundred of Kuitpo; from thence the said district is bounded by the south-east boundary line of the said Hundred of Kuitpo, till the same reaches the Trigonometrical Station at Wickham's Hill; from thence the said district is bounded by a straight line running from the last mentioned Station to North Magnificent Trigonometrical Station; from thence the said district abuts on the boundary line of the Counties of Adelaide and Hindmarsh, from the North Magnificent Trigonometrical Station to the sea; and from thence the said district is bounded on the west by the sea to the Onkaparinga River
- ↑ Hosking, P.; Universal Publicity Company (1936), The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936, Universal Publicity Company, p. 682, retrieved 21 July 2017
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