Wanilla is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the southern end of Eyre Peninsula about 271 kilometres (168 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of the city of Port Lincoln. The traditional owners of the land within Wanilla are the Nauo peoples. Wanilla began as a town surveyed in 1882 by H.J. Cant and which was later gazetted as a government town. The boundaries of the locality were created on 16 October 2003 for the “long established name.”