The Yalata Indigenous Protected Area is an

Indigenous Protected Area An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area used in Australia; each is formed by voluntary agreement with Indigenous Australians, and declared by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander representative organisation ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

. It has an area of 4643.97 km².UNEP-WCMC (2022). Protected Area Profile for Yalata from the World Database of Protected Areas. Accessed 25 May 2022

/ref> The northern portion of the protected area lies on the arid

Nullarbor Plain The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of 'no' and 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its no ...

. The southwestern corner includes a small portion of the Mediterranean-climate

Eyre Yorke Block The Eyre Yorke Block, also known as the Eyre and Yorke mallee, is an interim Australian (IBRA) bioregion and a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion covering part of the Eyre Peninsula and all of Yorke Peninsula as well as land to its immediate east i ...

(Eyre and Yorke mallee) ecoregion."Yalata". DOPA Explorer. Accessed 25 May 2022

/ref>Neagle, N. (Ed.) (2009). A Biological Survey of the Yalata Indigenous Protected Area, South Australia, 2007-2008. (Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia). It is bounded on the west by

Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about west of Ceduna, South Australia, Ceduna in the locality of Nullarbor, South Australia, Nullarbor. The wilderness protection are ...

, on the north by

Nullarbor Regional Reserve Nullarbor Regional Reserve is a protected area in South Australia located about west of Ceduna. Its boundaries are defined by the Trans-Australian Railway to the north and by the Nullarbor National Park, the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection ...

, on the northeast by

Yellabinna Regional Reserve The Yellabinna Regional Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about north of Ceduna. To the west it borders Nullarbor Regional Reserve, to the south Yumbarra Conservation Park and Pureba Conservatio ...

, on the southwest by the

Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight (geography), bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern Coast, coastline of mainland Australia. There are two definitions for its extent—one by the Internation ...

, and on the southeast by Wahgunyah Conservation Park. The

Eyre Highway Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highways 1 and A1, it forms part of Highway 1 (Australia), Highway 1 and the National Highway (Australia), Australian Nat ...

runs east and west through the protected area. The protected area includes

Head of the Bight Head of the Bight (also called Head of Bight) is a bay located in South Australia at the most northern extent of the Great Australian Bight. Flora and fauna Southern right whale It is one of two locations on Australia's south coast where south ...

, a bay at the northern end of the Great Australian Bight which is a popular spot for whale watching. The dramatic coastal

Bunda Cliffs The Bunda Cliffs, also known as the Nullarbor Cliffs, are a coastal Escarpment, scarp on the southern coast of Australia, extending from the western coast of South Australia to the south-eastern corner of Western Australia. Geography The Bund ...

extend westwards from Head of the Bight.

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