Aboriginal community in western South Australia
Yalata is an Aboriginal community located 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Ceduna and 140 km (87 mi) south of Ooldea on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia . It lies on the traditional lands of the Wirangu people , but the settlement began as Yalata Mission in the early 1950s when Pila Nguru people were moved from Ooldea Mission when that closed, after previously being moved from their land in the Great Victoria Desert owing to nuclear testing by the British Government .
The old Colona sheep station nearby is now part of Yalata Indigenous Protected Area .
At the 2016 census , Yalata and the surrounding area had a population of 248.[ 2]
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^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Yalata (state suburb)" . 2016 Census QuickStats . Retrieved 22 March 2019 .
^ Weatherill, Jay (23 October 2003). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places" (PDF) . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South AustralIA. p. 3859. Retrieved 14 April 2019 . Assign the names YUNTA, BLINMAN, BOOKABIE, GLENDAMBO, YALATA, KINGOONYA, OLARY, INNAMINCKA, and MANNA HILL, to those areas Out of Councils and shown numbered 1 to 9 on Rack Plan 857 (Sheet 3)
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