Oldfield Land District is a
land district (cadastral division) of
Western Australia partly within the
Eucla and
South-West
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divisions on the state's south coast. It spans roughly 33°15'S - 34°00'S in latitude and 119°45'E - 121°10'E in longitude.
Location and features
The district is located on the
Southern Ocean coast west of
Esperance, extending west to Point Charles, east to Young River and north about inland. Most of the district is within the
Shire of Ravensthorpe
The Shire of Ravensthorpe is a local government area in the southern Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about halfway between the city of Albany and the town of Esperance and about southeast of the state capital, Perth. The S ...
, although part is within the
Shire of Esperance. It includes the following townsites, with year of gazettal noted:
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Cascade
Cascade, Cascades or Cascading may refer to:
Science and technology Science
*Cascade waterfalls, or series of waterfalls
* Cascade, the CRISPR-associated complex for antiviral defense (a protein complex)
* Cascade (grape), a type of fruit
* Bioc ...
(1976)
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Desmond (1909)
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Hopetoun (1901)
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Jerdacuttup
Jerdacuttup is a small town in Western Australia east-south-east of Perth between Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Jerdacuttup had a population of six.
John Forrest ex ...
(1966)
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Kundip (1902)
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Munglinup
Munglinup is a small town located in the Shire of Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.
The town lies on the South Coast Highway between Ravensthorpe and Esperance and close to the Munglinup River. The river ...
(1962)
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Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places.
England
*Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
**Ravensthorpe railway station, Dewsbury
*Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire
*Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire
*Ravensthorpe, an histor ...
(1901)
History
On 20 August 1896,
Harry Johnston, the Deputy
Surveyor General of Western Australia, recommended that four new districts be created in the Esperance region. The Minister approved the names on 11 September, and on 23 September 1896 the district was added to the Standard Plans in use by the Department of Lands and Surveys. As it was approved prior to the ''Land Act 1898'', its boundaries were never gazetted.
[''Mapping — General — Declaration of Land Districts'' (7835/97), p.5. Accessed at State Records Office, Perth.]
References
{{Land districts of Western Australia
Land districts of Western Australia
Goldfields–Esperance