{{Short description|Range of hills in South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox mountain range | name = Barunga Range | other_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Clements Gap windfarm construction.JPG | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Clements Gap Wind farm, Barunga Range SA | country = Australia | state = South Australia | map = Australia South Australia | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_relief = yes | region = Mid North | label = | label_position = | range_coordinates = {{coord|33|27|18|S|138|9|48|E|type:mountain_region:AU-SA_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | highest = | elevation_m = | length_km = | width_km = | area_km2 = | length_orientation = N-S | width_orientation = E-W | coordinates = {{coord|33|41|54|S|138|10|1|E}} | type = | age = }} The '''Barunga Range''' is a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges starting near Clements Gap and Merriton in South Australia's Mid North.<ref name="PLB">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |work=Property Location Browswer |title=Search for 'Barunga Range, RANG' |id=SA0005053 |publisher=Land Services, Government of South Australia |accessdate=23 June 2017 |archive-date=7 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Barunga Range |url=http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=SA0005053 |publisher=Geoscience Australia, Government of Australia |accessdate=15 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011102613/http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=SA0005053 |archivedate=11 October 2012 }}</ref> At the range's southern end it merges with Hummock Range at Barunga Gap, approximately {{Convert|10|km|mi}} south west of Snowtown.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |title=Search for 'Hummock Range, RANG' |id=SA0031501 |publisher=Land Services, Government of South Australia |work=Property Location Browser |accessdate=3 January 2015 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name 'Barunga' derives from an indigenous term meaning "gap in the range".
The Barunga and Hummock ranges are host to the Clements Gap and Snowtown wind farms.
==Etymology== According to the Australian Biospecimen Network Association, ''Barunga'' is an indigenous term meaning "gap in the range",<ref name="PlbHundred">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |work=Property Location Browswer |title=Search for 'Hundred of Barunga, HD' |id=SA0005062 |publisher=Land Services, Government of South Australia |accessdate=23 June 2017 |quote=Derivation of Name: ABNA for gap in the range |archive-date=7 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> but South Australian historian Geoffrey Manning instead states it means "place for meat".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slsa.ha.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/b/b8.htm#barunga |first=Geoffrey |last=Manning |work=Manning Index |title=South Australian Place Names: Barunga |publisher=State Library of South Australia |accessdate=31 July 2019}}</ref> The term was also used to name Barunga Hill, north west of Snowtown, and Barunga Creek, which flows off from Barunga Range to the south west of Snowtown. The term was also used in turn to name the cadastral Hundred of Barunga (established 1869) which approximates the area of the Barunga Range.<ref name="PLB"/>
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Category:Mountain ranges of South Australia Category:Geology of South Australia
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