Yannathan

Yannathan, a rural locality, is on the edge of the former Koo Wee Rup Swamp and is 9 km north-east of Lang Lang. The topography is undulating to flat, and before drainage works were carried out farmlands could be waterlogged when the Lang Lang River flooded.

Farm selections began in the Yannathan district in the late 1870s. According to Bunce's Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria (1859) Yannathan is an Aboriginal word meaning jaunt, move or walk about.