2. In music, a steam-whistle organ with a loud, shrill sound audible miles away; it is used to attract attention for circuses and fairs. It was invented in the United States about 1850 by A.S. Denny and patented in 1855 by Joshua C. Stoddard. The calliope consists of a boiler that forces steam through a set of whistle pipes. Either a keyboard or a pinned cylinder (like that of a barrel organ or music box) controls the entry of steam into the proper pipes.

3. A town in provincial France.

4. A town in Central Qld. near Gladstone, on the Calliope River. The river was originally named the Liffey by early settlers, but was changed to Calliope by NSW Governor Fitzroy in 1854 to honour the sailing vessel HMS Calliope on which he travelled to Gladstone on an official visit. A later steam powered vessel named Calliope also visited Gladstone.

WAPENTAKE.
1. An administrative division of the English counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Rutland, first clearly referred to at the end of the 10th century and corresponding to the "hundred" in other parts of England. The term wapentake is of Scandinavian origin and meant the taking of weapons; it later signified the clash of arms by which the people assembled in a local court expressed assent. Danish influence was strong in those English counties where wapentakes existed.

2. Batteslaw. District, county of Nottinghamshire, England, with an area of 246 square miles (637 square km). The district occupies the northern quarter of the county. The name Bassetlaw previously applied to the parliamentary constituency that covers much the same area and earlier still was the name of one of the English "wapentakes," or territorial divisions, through which law was administered and defense organized. The court of this wapentake met on a hill called Bassetlaw. Pop. (1986 est.) 104,900.

3. Unit of English local government, intermediate between village and shire, which survived into the 19th century. Originally, the term probably referred to a group of 100 hides (units of land required to support one peasant family). In the areas of Danish settlement these units were usually called wapentakes, and in the extreme northern counties of England, wards.

4. The Danes did not settle the whole of this wide area intensively, but their powerful military aristocracy dominated for a sufficient period to leave its imprint on local custom. The area of the Danelaw is marked by the survival of Danish personal names and place-names. In local administration the hundred was generally called a wapentake, and the hide was generally replaced by the plowland. Its law was distinguished by procedural differences, severe fines for breach of peace, and the existence of an aristocratic jury of presentment to initiate the prosecution of criminal suspects. In the areas of intensive Danish settlement, there were an unusually high number of sokemen, a class of personally free peasants attached to a lord rather than to the land.

5. Wapentake Creek. A small tidal waterway flowing into Gladstone Harbour near South Trees.

Rodds Bay. Named by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN (1791-1856) naval officer, HM Colonial Cutter Mermaid, 1 June 1819. Refer P.P. King. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia...1818-1822. London, 1826, p.182.