Boundaries were created in December 1998 for the “long established name” which is derived from Wangolina Station, once an outstation of the nearby Woolmit station but later a property in its own right.[10]
The Wangolina drain joins the Butchers Gap Drain which is part of the drainage infrastructure built in the south east of the state since European settlement.
Wangolina consists of land along the coastline associated with the Cape Jaffa promontory which its shares with the gazetted locality of Cape Jaffa. Wangolina has coastline frontage to both Lacepede Bay in the north and to the ocean in the south. The Southern Ports Highway passes through the locality from Kingston SE in the north to Robe in the south.[11][1]
The majority land use within the locality is agriculture with a strip of land adjoining the coastline being zoned for conservation.[12][1]
^"AHS – AA609582"(PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
^"WOOLMIT STATION". Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). 21 January 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
^Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, p. 180, ISBN978-1-86254-680-6
