Delisser Land District

Delisser Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the Eastern and Eucla land divisions on the Nullarbor Plain. It spans roughly 29°00'S - 31°00'S in latitude and 126°30'E - 129°00'E in longitude. It was named after E.A. Delisser who surveyed and described the Nullarbor Plain in the 1860s.

Delisser
CountryAustralia
StateWestern Australia
Lands administrative divisions around Delisser
Yowalga Yowalga
Giles Delisser South Australia
Nurina Mundrabilla

The district was created on 20 October 1916 and was defined in the Government Gazette:

Bounded by lines starting from the 300 mile mark on the Trans-Australian Railway line, and extending Eastward along said line to the 129deg. East longitude, thence North to a point due East of survey mark R. 82 at Brickey's Soak, thence West to a point due North of the aforesaid 300-mile mark on the Railway line, and thence due South to the starting point.

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  • "New Land Districts (per 7835/97)". Western Australia Government Gazette. 20 October 1916. p. 1916:1771.

30°00′S 127°45′E / 30.000°S 127.750°E / -30.000; 127.750