Buningonia Land District is a

land district A land district is a type of administrative territorial entity in some countries. Australia The lands administrative divisions of New South Wales refers to the 141 counties within the Colony of New South Wales, that later became the Australian sta ...

(cadastral division) of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

, located within the

Eastern Land Division The Eastern Land Division is one of five cadastral land divisions Western Australia, Australia, within the eastern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region and the Pilbara region. Most of its territory is covered by deserts, including the part o ...

on the

Nullarbor Plain The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its ...

. It spans roughly 30°10'S - 32°00'S in latitude and 122°15'E - 124°00'E in longitude.

Location and features

The district is located on the

in the south-east of the state and falls generally East of the city of Kalgoorlie. The

Trans-Australian Railway The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the east ...

roughly bisects the district. The Aboriginal settlement of Cundeelee and the railway towns of Coonana and

Zanthus Zanthus is a remote and uninhabited outpost on the Trans-Australian Railway approximately east of the regional city of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. Transport A depot existed at Zanthus prior to 1915 ...

are located within its boundaries.

History

The district was created on 4 March 1903. The description of the boundaries was subsequently amended on 8 May 1907, and published in the Government Gazette thus:

References

Land districts of Western Australia Goldfields-Esperance {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub