Wonnerup, Western Australia
| Wonnerup Federal division(s) | Forrest[2] | |
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The townsite of Wonnerup is located 219 kilometres (136 mi) south of
Busselton. It was gazetted a townsite in 1856,[3] 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.[4]
The
Busselton railway line and the Nannup Branch Railway. In 1998, part of Wonnerup was subsumed into the Busselton suburb of Geographe.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wonnerup (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Australian Electoral Commission". AEC localities. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "History of country town names – W". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2007.
- ^ "Water Authority – Aboriginal social water requirements for the Southern Blackwood Plateau" (PDF). 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2008.
- ^ Landgate Geonoma database, entry for Geographe
External links
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