County of Robe


The County of Robe is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by and named for Governor Frederick Robe in 1846. It covers a portion of the state's south-east from the west coast at Robe all the way across to the border with Victoria on the east. This includes the following contemporary local government areas of the state:
The French explorer Nicholas Baudin first viewed the bay in 1802 on which Robe was later settled in 1802, and he named it Guichen Bay in honour of Admiral de Guichen. The Boandik aboriginal tribe lived relatively undisturbed around the Robe region, with “Black Maggie” being the first to meet white men in Guichen Bay in the 1830s, who were probably whalers, seal- ers or sailors visiting the area long before South Aus- tralian settlement.

Hundreds

The County of Robe is divided into the following 18 hundreds: