Type: | town |
Wingellina | |
State: | wa |
Lga: | Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku |
Local Map: | yes |
Zoom: | 10 |
Coordinates: | -26.07°N 128.93°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Postcode: | 0872 |
Elevation: | 676 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Stategov: | North West Central |
Fedgov: | O'Connor |
Dist1: | 1700 |
Dir1: | north east |
Location1: | Perth |
Dist2: | 236 |
Dir2: | east |
Location2: | Warburton |
Dist3: | 712 |
Dir3: | south west |
Location3: | Alice Springs |
Timezone: | ACST |
Utc: | +9:30 |
Wingellina or Irrunytju Community is a small Indigenous Australian community in Western Australia located about 1700km (1,100miles) north east of Perth near the Western Australian-South Australian border in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. The local language of Wingellina is Pitjantjatjara.
Surrounded by large granite hills with mulga and mallee country, the community maintains many traditional activities such as hunting and gathering bush tucker as well as making many carved wooden artefacts.[2]
The community is situated southwest of the Surveyor Generals Corner near the border in the Gibson and Great Victoria deserts between the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.[3]
The community was established in the 1980s and was composed mainly of people from the Warburton mission. These people still have spiritual and ancestral ties to many parts of the region. Like other communities in the area, many came from South Australia because of rocket testing at Woomera.
Wingellina Layout Plan No.1 has been prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. It currently exists in draft format only, having not been endorsed by the community. The map set is viewable at Planning Western Australia's website.[4]
The community is located within the determined Ngaanyatjarra Lands (Part A) native title claim (WC04/3).