Hundred of Noarlunga
| Hundred of Noarlunga South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Hundred of Noarlunga | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°04′41″S 138°37′52″E / 35.078°S 138.631°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1846 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 120 km2 (46.3 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Noarlunga is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia covering the far south-western Adelaide metropolitan area south and west of the Sturt River and north and west of the Onkaparinga River.[1][2] It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide stretching from Glenelg in the northwest to Port Noarlunga in the southwest; and spanning inland between the Sturt and Onkaparinga to Bridgewater in the Adelaide foothills. It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe, Noarlunga being likely derived from 'nurlongga', an indigenous word referring to the curvature in the Onkaparinga River at Old Noarlunga, dubbed Horseshoe Bend by European settlers.
Etymology
Contemporary Australian linguists believe the name 'Noarlunga' is derived from the Kaurna nurlo (corner/curve/bend) + ngga (place)[3] Early South Australian Christian missionaries, Christian Teichelmann and Clamor Schürmann, recorded this meaning of the word in 1840, among about 2000 translations of local indigenous words.[4]
The Australasian Biospecimen Network Association (ABNA) records Noarlunga as meaning "fishing place", as suggested by various early South Australian historians and repeated by some official sources, such as the City of Onkaparinga[5] and the state government land titles office.[1] However, from the 2010s, expert opinion has favoured the "curve" translation.[6][3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Placename Details: Hundred of Noarlunga (Hundred)". Government of South Australia. SA0050291. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "South Australia hundred maps (Noarlunga)" (PDF). Surveyor General's Office. 1894. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ a b Amery, Rob (March 2009), "Chapter 12. Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains" (PDF), in Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.), The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, ANU Press, p. 165-180, ISBN 978-1-921536-57-1,
Cockburn (1990:160) and Manning (1986:152) assert that Noarlunga means 'fishing place' while Praite and Tolley (1970:129) say that it means 'the place with a hill'. Praite and Tolley are obviously drawing on the fact that Ramindjeri has ngurle 'hill' and this, combined with the Kaurna suffix -ngga, results in Noarlunga. However, it is far more likely that Noarlunga derives from Kaurna nurlo 'curvature; corner' and referred to Horseshoe Bend, on the Onkaparinga River, where the town was first established. Certainly, as we observed earlier, T&S recognised this.
- ^ Kneebone, Heide (2005). "Teichelmann, Christian Gottlieb (1807–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "Old Noarlunga, European History and Heritage". City of Onkaparinga. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ Amery, Rob; Buckskin, Vincent (Jack) Kanya (March 2009), "Chapter 10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database" (PDF), in Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.), The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, ANU Press, p. 202-203, ISBN 978-1-921536-57-1