page_title: Kaurna
section_title: Kaurna place names
hierarchical_section_title: Kaurna / Kaurna place names
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of an Onkaparinga Estuary north of the airstip taken by myself in August 2007.
context_page_description: The Kaurna people are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The word "Kaurna" is pronounced in English as; and in the traditional language as. They were known as the Adelaide tribe by the early settlers. Kaurna culture and language were almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the British colonisation of South Australia in 1836. However, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture.
context_section_description: Many places around Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula have names either directly or partially derived from Kaurna place names, such as Cowandilla, Aldinga, Morialta and Munno Para. Some were the names of the Kaurna bands who lived there. There are also a few Kaurna names hybridised with European words.
  The Adelaide City Council began the process of dual naming all of the city squares, each of the parks making up the parklands which surround the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide, and other sites of significance to the Kaurna people in 1997. The naming process, which assigned an extra name in the Kaurna language to each place, was mostly completed in 2003, and the renaming of 39 sites finalised and endorsed by the council in 2012.
caption: The name of the Onkaparinga River (pictured) is derived from the Kaurna language.
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