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- ↑ Chapter 12 'Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains' (Rob Amery) in: Luise Hercus; Flavia Hodges; Jane Simpson, eds. (March 2009). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia. ANU Press. pp. 165–180. ISBN 9781921536571.
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'.
- ↑ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ↑ UBD Adelaide directory (1999; 47th ed.) Universal Press. ISBN 0-7319-1033-8