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Yellabinna is a locality in the Australian state of
South Australia
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located to the north of the town of
Ceduna in the western part of the state.
The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to “the long established local name.” Its name is derived from the use of “Yellabinna” in the names of the
Yellabinna Regional Reserve
The Yellabinna Regional Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about north of Ceduna. To the west it borders Nullarbor Regional Reserve, to the south Yumbarra Conservation Park and Pureba Conservatio ...
and the
Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area.
Yellabinna is located within the federal
Division of Grey
The Division of Grey is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 ...
, the state electoral districts of
Flinders
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and
Giles, and the
Pastoral Unincorporated Area
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of South Australia.
[
The land use within Yellabinna is mainly concerned with the following ]protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...
s - the Boondina Conservation Park, the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area, although the extraction of heavy mineral sands is underway as of 2013 by Iluka Resources
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at the Jacinth-Ambrosia Mine in the west of the locality.
Surrounding localities
Yellabinna which is bounded in part to the north by the Trans-Australian Railway
The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta railway station, Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie railway station, Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. Built to standa ...
is surrounded by the following localities gazetted under the South Australian ''Geographical Names Act 1991'':
* North: Commonwealth Hill, Mulgathing
* Northeast: Wilgena
* East: Wilgena, Lake Everard
* Southeast: Kondoolka
* South: Yalata
Yalata ( ), in the isolated far west of South Australia, is both an Indigenous Protected Area and, within that, a township of the same name where an Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal community lives. The township is west of Ceduna, South Aus ...
, Chundaria, Mitchidy Moola, Bookabie
Bookabie is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s west coast overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the town centre of Cedun ...
, Nanbona, Penong, Yumbara and Pureba
* Southwest: Yalata
Yalata ( ), in the isolated far west of South Australia, is both an Indigenous Protected Area and, within that, a township of the same name where an Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal community lives. The township is west of Ceduna, South Aus ...
* West: Nullarbor
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* Northwest: Maralinga Tjarutja
The Maralinga Tjarutja, or Maralinga Tjarutja Council, is the corporation representing the traditional Anangu owners of the remote western areas of South Australia known as the Maralinga Tjarutja lands. The council was established by the ''Mara ...
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.
:For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adela ...
*Mount Finke
Mount Finke is a monadnock in the Australian state of South Australia, located in the gazetted locality of Yellabinna about north of Ceduna.
In 1999, it was described as follows:It is about 5km long with an elevation of 369 m AHD, it stands ab ...
* Jacinth Ambrosia Airport
References
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Towns in South Australia
Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia