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Hundred of Reynolds (Northern Territory)

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Cadastral in the Northern Territory, Australia
Hundred of Reynolds
Northern Territory
Map of the Hundred of Reynolds, Northern Territory published by John Sands in 1886.
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Coordinates14°53′0″S 134°30′0″E / 14.88333°S 134.50000°E / -14.88333; 134.50000
Established9 January 1873
Abolished1976

The Hundred of Reynolds was a hundred of the County of Gladstone in the Northern Territory of Australia which was created in 1873 and which lapsed in 1976. It is located 600 km south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin.

History

The Hundred is on the treadtional lands of the Alawa and Mara people.

The first European to see the Hundred was Ludwig Leichhardt who crossed the Roper River at the Roper Bar in 1845, and in 1855 Augustus Charles Gregory passed to the south of the Hundred on his route to Gladstone, Queensland.

The Hundred was gazetted on 9 January 1873 along with six others in the County of Gladstone.

It was named after Thomas Reynolds, a former Premier of South Australia, who lived in the North Territory during the years 1873-74 and who died in the wrecking of the SS Gothenburg in February 1875.

The Hundred lapsed with the passage in 1976 and subsequent assent of the Crown Lands Ordinance 1976 (No 1 of 1977) and the Crown Lands (Validation of Proclamations) Ordinance 1976.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hundred of Reynolds". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. ^ Ayers, Henry (9 January 1873). "PROCLAMATION" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
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