Ravenswood in a small town in the Peel region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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The town is located along Pinjarra Road and on the banks of the Murray River

Murray River (Western Australia)

The Murray River is a river in the southwest of Western Australia which played a significant part in the expansion of Aboriginal settlement in the area south of Perth after the arrival of British settlers at the Swan River Colony in 1829....

The town retains the name it was given as a property which was established in the 1840s. The area was later sub-divided in the 1960s and the shire requested that a townsite be declared.
The town was gazetted in 1970.