The bore is located 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the Great Northern Highway between Port Hedland and Broome and has an elevation of 10 metres (33 ft).
[1] The bore falls within the boundaries of Wallal Downs Station, a historical pastoral lease, that operates in the area.
With a size of approximately 500,000 acres (200,000 ha), the Wallal Downs property stretches from the coastal flats into the Great Sandy Desert.
Cattle reared in the area are mostly sent to market in Port Hedland or Broome and are occasionally sent to Darwin after being fattened up in the Northern Territory in lean seasons.
[3] Wallal is also of historical interest as the location of an international effort to observe the solar eclipse on 21 September 1922, to validate Einstein's theory of relativity.