Hundred of Belvidere

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Belvidere
South Australia
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Belvidere
Coordinates 34°23′20″S139°00′47″E / 34.389°S 139.013°E / -34.389; 139.013
Established7 August 1851
LGA(s)
Region Barossa Valley
County Light
Lands administrative divisions around Belvidere:
Kapunda Julia Creek Neales
Light Belvidere Dutton
Nuriootpa Moorooroo Jellicoe

The Hundred of Belvidere is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the north Barossa Valley of South Australia in the County of Light.

The lightly-populated localities central to the hundred are St Johns, Moppa, Koonunga, Ebenezer and St Kitts. The more populous towns of Kapunda, Greenock, Nuriootpa, Stockwell and Truro, and the localities of Bagot Well and Fords, also cross the boundaries of the hundred, but the townships are all outside the hundred bounds.

The name appears to be derived from the Belvidere Range, spanning from Nain, south-easterly adjacent to the hundred, to Black Springs, further north. The range was named by geologist explorer Johannes Menge in 1841 because of the view it commanded (Latin bellus meaning beautiful and videre meaning sight). [1] [2]

Plan of the Hundred of Belvidere in 1960 showing the Light River bounding the north west Hundred of Belvidere, 1960 (22498546049).jpg
Plan of the Hundred of Belvidere in 1960 showing the Light River bounding the north west

History

The hundred was proclaimed by Governor Henry Young in 1851, [3] [4] the northern boundary being defined as a line due west from Mount Rufus to the River Light.

The District Council of Belvidere was established in 1866 bringing dedicated local government administration to the hundred. [5] There were no towns within the hundred then, as is presently the case, but a council chamber was erected at Koonunga and housed the council until the hundred was annexed by the District Council of Kapunda in 1932. [6] When Kapunda amalgamated with the District Council of Light in 1996, the hundred came to be administered by the much larger Light Regional Council.

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References

  1. "GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. No. 2". South Australian Register . Vol. IV, no. 179. South Australia. 26 June 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 1 December 2017 via National Library of Australia. I was obliged to fix the places where minerals occur by name of my own invention. Where Ranges had been named I used them, but I gave the name to the Belvidere Range, because of the beautiful prospect I enjoyed on the top of the highest one in it;
  2. "STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA". The South Australian . Vol. VII, no. 581. South Australia. 10 December 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2017 via National Library of Australia. Belvidere Range – Oxides of iron (various), varieties of compact quartz, zeolite do., flinty slate, hornstone, opal, zeolite, garnet, hornblende, alum-stone, talc, feldspar, dolomite, alum, plumbago or black lead, grey wacke.
  3. "Placename Details: Hundred of Belvidere". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 13 October 2009. SA0005795. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  4. "Proclamation. County of Light" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (35 ed.). 1851: 550. 7 August 1851. Retrieved 1 December 2017. Hundred Of Belvidere.–Bounded on the south by the Hundred of Nuriootpa; on the south-east by the Hundred of Moorooroo; on the east by the County boundary from the north angle of the Hundred of Moorooroo to Mount Rufus; on the north by a line running due west from Mount Rufus until it meets the River Light, then following the course of the river to the point where it issues from Section 1430 in the Kapunda Survey, thence by a straight line to the Belvidere trigonometrical station, the point of commencement.
  5. "MEETING TO FORM A DISTRICT COUNCIL-HUNDRED OF BELVIDERE". The South Australian Advertiser . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 20 November 1865. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  6. "DISTRICT COUNCIL OF BELVIDERE". Kapunda Herald . SA: National Library of Australia. 27 May 1932. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2014.