Yowalga 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 ...

in the

Great Victoria Desert The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia. History In 1875, British-born Australian explorer Ernest Giles became the first European to cross th ...

, north of 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 26°50'S - 29°00'S in latitude and 125°00'E - 129°00'E in longitude.

History

The district was created on 3 February 1932, and was defined in the ''Government Gazette'':

References

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