'Pikkara' (McLaren Vale)
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2013-04-01
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Schultz, Chester
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As the name of a railway stopping place on the former Willunga line, ‘Pikkara’ was approved by the
SA government’s Nomenclature Committee on 10th January 1946. The name was a mis-transcription of rikkara, the word for ‘south’ in the Ngarrindjeri language of the Lower Murray Lakes. Their source was probably Taplin’s Folklore of the South Australian Aborigines (1879).