• Source: Hundred of Mobilong

The Hundred of Mobilong is a cadastral unit of hundred on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia and centred on Murray Bridge. One of the ten hundreds of the County of Sturt, it is bounded on the east entirely by the Murray River. It was created in 1860 by Governor Richard MacDonnell from a portion of the former Hundred of the Murray, which covered lands beside the Murray River for more than 300 kilometres (190 mi) of its course from mouth to Waikerie. It was named after an aboriginal name for the swamplands in the vicinity on the west bank of the Murray.




Etymology


According to South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning, the word Mobilong is a corruption of the Aboriginal term mupulawangk, meaning "soft reed place" as "reeds along the [Murray] river bank were used in the making of coiled baskets." Mobilong was also the original name for the early township of Murray Bridge and is the present name for the suburb of Mobilong, which covers the Mobilong Swamp area immediately north of the city centre.




Localities


The following localities and suburbs of the Murray Bridge Council area are situated inside (or partly inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Mobilong:

Tepko (southern half only)
Caloote (southern half only)
Wall Flat (southern half only)
Woodlane
Pallamana
Mypolonga
Murray Bridge North
Toora
Rocky Gully
Northern Heights
Mobilong
Murray Bridge
White Hill
Monarto South (north east portion only)
Gifford Hill
Murray Bridge South
Swanport
Riverglen




Local government


The District Council of Mobilong was established in 1884, bringing local government to the hundred. From 1924 to 1977 the Corporate Town of Murray Bridge formed a second separate local government body within the hundred, and the district council expanded to govern most of land encapsulated by the easterly neighbouring hundreds of Burdett and Ettrick as well as land in the south neighbouring Hundred of Brinkley. The town and district councils merged in 1977 to bring the hundred back under the governance of an expanded single body called the District Council of Murray Bridge.




See also


Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
Mobilong Prison




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hundred of Mobilong
• Mobilong
• Murray Bridge, South Australia
• District Council of Mobilong
• Hundred of Monarto
• County of Sturt
• Mobilong, South Australia
• Hundred of the Murray
• Hundred of Talunga
• Lands administrative divisions of South Australia