Hundred of Horn
The Hundred of Horn is a cadastral hundred of South Australia located in the remote County of Way.[1]
Location
The main town of the hundred is Charra, South Australia, overlooking 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]
References
- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Catt". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0012901. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
Derivation of Name: Hon A Catt MP
- ^ Charra, South Australia.
- ^ "Charra, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- ^ Bracher, Frederick (1944). "The Maps in 'Gulliver's Travels'". Huntington Library Quarterly. University of California Press. 8 (1): 67–68. JSTOR 3815865.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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