Wanilla, South Australia Explained

Type:	suburb
Wanilla
State:	SA
Coordinates:	-34.5263°N 135.6775°W
Coord Ref:	^[1]
Established:	1882 (town) 2003 (locality)
Postcode:	5607^[2]

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| near-n =Edillilie | near-ne =Koppio| near-e = Koppio
Charlton Gully| near-se = Green Patch| near-s = Fountain
Pearlah
Green Patch| near-sw= Wangary| near-w = Wangary | near-nw = Edillilie|footnotes= Adjoining localities^[1] }}

Wanilla is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the southern end of Eyre Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the city of Port Lincoln.^[2]

The traditional owners of the land within Wanilla are the Nauo peoples.^[3]

Wanilla began as a town surveyed in 1882 by H.J. Cant and which was later gazetted as a government town. The boundaries of the locality were created on 16 October 2003 for the “long established name.”^{[1] [4]}

Wanilla is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.^[1]

See also

• Hundred of Wanilla

External links

• Wanilla Community website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search results for "Wanilla, Locb" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', ‘Government Towns’, 'SA Government Regions', 'Counties' and ’Gazetter’ . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australia . 12 January 2018.
2. Web site: Postcode for Wanilla, South Australia. Postcodes Australia. 12 January 2018.
3. David Horton (ed.), Aboriginal Australia Map, published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (AIATSIS. 1994).
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