Eastern Land Division

The Eastern Land Division is one of five cadastral divisions of Western Australia, within the eastern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region and the Pilbara region.

[1] The Eastern Land Division was created on 2 March 1887, in a reform to the land divisions.

[2] On 28 March 1917, the Central Land Division had been incorporated into the Eastern Land Division.

[3] The current boundaries of the land enacted on 30 March 1998.

[1][4] Prior to the construction of the Trans-Australian Railway in 1917, the Eastern Land Division, which consists almost entirely of the Great Victoria and Great Sandy Deserts, did not contain any districts.