
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.