Marla
- Local Government Area
- Unincorporated SA
- Postcode
- 5724
- Population
- 38
- Area
- 2.90 km²
- Coordinates
- -27.2997, 133.6224
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Marla
Marla is a town and locality in the far north-west of South Australia, on the Stuart Highway about 970 kilometres north-west of Adelaide and about 400 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It was proclaimed as a government town in 1981 to provide essential services to travellers crossing the continent and to act as an administrative centre for the state's north-west, including the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands and the Mintabie opal field. The name comes from the Marla Bore, a corruption of the Aboriginal word marlu, meaning kangaroo.