Wongan Hills, Western Australia
Wongan Hills Federal division(s) | Durack | ||||||||
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Wongan Hills is a town in the
The town is named for a nearby range of hills that are found to the north-west of the town, also named Wongan Hills, which was first recorded in 1836 by Surveyor General of Western Australia John Septimus Roe.
History
The area was settled by the 1900s, and in 1911 the town was gazetted and named after the range. "Wongan" is derived from the
In the early 1900s, poet Lilian Wooster Greaves lived with her family at Wongan Hills. Her book of poetry includes a number of prose and poetry items relating to living there at the time of World War I.[4]
In 1925, an agricultural research station was established about 5 km north of the town, which assisted in the diversification of and improvements in farm practices through the state. The area is a prosperous agricultural region with activities focused on sheep, grain and pig-farming.[5]
Construction of a
As part of
Climate
Wongan Hills historically had a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) however drying associated with widening of the Hadley cell has shifted the area in recent times to a hot semi-arid climate (BSh).[8] The climate is similar to Northern Hemisphere areas on the southern Mediterranean Sea, such as Tripoli or Gaza City, though Wongan Hills' inland location produces hotter, less arid summers and cooler winters than those localities. Summers are hot to sweltering and generally arid, though occasionally tropical cyclones from the Indian Ocean will affect the region after moving inland, whilst winters are comfortable with cold nights and occasional showers.
Climate data for Wongan Hills | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 47.4 (117.3) |
47.0 (116.6) |
43.5 (110.3) |
39.2 (102.6) |
34.7 (94.5) |
27.5 (81.5) |
25.4 (77.7) |
30.2 (86.4) |
35.2 (95.4) |
39.5 (103.1) |
42.0 (107.6) |
45.0 (113.0) |
47.4 (117.3) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 34.6 (94.3) |
34.1 (93.4) |
30.9 (87.6) |
26.4 (79.5) |
21.5 (70.7) |
18.2 (64.8) |
17.0 (62.6) |
17.9 (64.2) |
20.7 (69.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
29.2 (84.6) |
32.5 (90.5) |
25.7 (78.3) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) |
26.2 (79.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
19.9 (67.8) |
15.7 (60.3) |
13.0 (55.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
12.3 (54.1) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.7 (63.9) |
21.2 (70.2) |
24.2 (75.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
16.4 (61.5) |
13.4 (56.1) |
9.9 (49.8) |
7.7 (45.9) |
6.6 (43.9) |
6.7 (44.1) |
7.6 (45.7) |
10.1 (50.2) |
13.2 (55.8) |
15.8 (60.4) |
12.0 (53.6) |
Record low °C (°F) | 9.8 (49.6) |
8.5 (47.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
2.8 (37.0) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
0.5 (32.9) |
0.5 (32.9) |
3.4 (38.1) |
7.3 (45.1) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 15.5 (0.61) |
15.5 (0.61) |
20.8 (0.82) |
22.6 (0.89) |
51.8 (2.04) |
69.5 (2.74) |
69.3 (2.73) |
51.6 (2.03) |
29.8 (1.17) |
19.6 (0.77) |
12.4 (0.49) |
10.0 (0.39) |
388.2 (15.28) |
Average precipitation days | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 8.9 | 12.3 | 13.5 | 12.2 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 79.0 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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24 | 28 | 31 | 38 | 48 | 56 | 58 | 55 | 47 | 34 | 28 | 26 | 39 |
Source: [9] |
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wongan Hills (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ "Wongan Hills". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ "History of country town names – W". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
- ^ Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1927), Wongan way, [L.W. Greaves?], retrieved 11 October 2012
- ^ "Australia's Golden Outback – Wongan Hills". 2006. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- ^ "Country news". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 6 September 1933. p. 6. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Farmers construct huge straw cross for Easter service". 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ Seidel, Diane J., Qiang Fu, Randell, William J. and Reichler, Thomas J.; 'Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate', Nature, (2008), volume 1, pp. 21–24
- ^ "Climate statistics for Wongan Hills". Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
External links
Media related to Wongan Hills, Western Australia at Wikimedia Commons