Deakin is a remote locality and is the last railway siding in

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 ...

on 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 easter ...

, and the closest to the border of Western Australia and South Australia, which is the 129th meridian east. Deakin is important in the history of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and Western Australia in the part it has played in the determinations of fixing the Western Australian border with South Australia by marking the border on the ground. Historic sites close to Deakin are the Deakin Pillar (1921), from which the position was determined of the Deakin Obelisk (1926), being about 2.82 km to the east of the Deakin Pillar. Both sites were used to fix the border, and the Deakin Obelisk is the point on the earth which determines the border with South Australia by a line taken from the centre of a copper plug embedded into the concrete obelisk. Both sites are close to the Trans-Australian Railway.

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