[00]

Wonnerup

Towns

City of Busselton WA, Locked Bag 1, Wonnerup, WA 6280
08 9781 0444

Description

The townsite of Wonnerup is located 219 kilometres (136 mi) south of Perth and 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Busselton.

The townsite of Wonnerup is located 219 kilometres (136 mi) south of Perth and 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Busselton. It was gazetted a townsite in 1856, deriving its name from the nearby Wonnerup Inlet.

The name is Aboriginal, and has been shown on maps of the region since 1839. The meaning of the name is "place of the woman's digging or fighting stick"; the Noongar word for fighting stick is wonna, while the suffix -up denotes place of.The wonna was made from the peppermint tree, Agonis flexuosa, a coastal native found only in the south-west, and was a common trade item of the Noongar people.The Wonnerup massacre of Wardandi Noongar people by European settlers occurred in the vicinity of the area in 1841. The Ballaarat Tramline, Western Australia's first railway and railway bridge, was constructed in 1871 in the locality of Lockville, within Wonnerup. Wonnerup was later the junction of the Bunbury to Busselton railway line and the Nannup Branch Railway.

History
Weather
Things to do

Details

Type: Towns

Population: 101-1000

Time zone: UTC +08:00

Area: 17.617 km2

Elevation: 4-10 metres

Town elevation: 4 m

Population number: 145

Local Government Area: City of Busselton

Location

City of Busselton WA, Locked Bag 1, Wonnerup, WA 6280

Get Directions

Attribution

This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Wonnerup, Western Australia

Wonnerup - Localista

Top stories