Kulpara - SA

Named for an Aboriginal word, Kula, meaning eucalyptus, Kulpara is located on the Copper Coast Highway between Port Wakefield and Paskeville. Kulpara is a rural town in the Hummocks Range at the northern end of Yorke Peninsula.The "Hundred of Kulpara" comprising the land now occupied by Kulpara, Melton, and Paskeville was proclaimed on 12 June 1862 and surveyed in 1864 with European settlement beginning the following year. Kulpara township was surveyed in 1932 and proclaimed in 1934.A fossil genus of stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria, Kulparia, was discovered near and named after this town.