Koondra Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 and a subdivision of the North-West Land Division, located in the Pilbara region of the state.

Location

The district is located to the east Newman

Newman, Western Australia

Newman, located about 1186 km north of Perth and 9 km north of the Tropic of Capricorn, is a town in the Pilbara region. It can be reached by the Great Northern Highway...

 in the Shire of East Pilbara, and is bounded on the east by the rabbit-proof fence

Rabbit-proof fence

The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the No. 1 Rabbit-proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral...

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History

It was first gazetted as the Kundra Land District on 13 June 1906. Its spelling was changed to Koondra on 19 May 1916 in an effort to more accurately capture its correct Aboriginal pronunciation.