Wungong, Western Australia
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Wungong is a semi-rural south-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia
, located midway between Armadale
and Byford
and under the administration of the City of Armadale
.
The name derives from that of a government townsite on the Perth-Bunbury [railway] line, proclaimed on 12 March 1909 and named after the nearby Wungong Brook. The course of this brook was first traced by Alfred Hillman in January 1835.
A farm established in the nineteenth-century was named Wongong,, as were the brook itself and a church mission, indicating extensive use of the earlier variant spelling.
A wildlife sanctuary named 'The Armadale Reptile Park' was opened in Wungong in 1995 by the Gaikhorst family and has the largest public reptile and amphibian display in Western Australia along with dingoes,flying foxes,farm animals marsupials and birds.
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, located midway between Armadale
Armadale, Western Australia
Armadale is a suburb within the City of Armadale, located on the south-eastern edge of Perth's metropolitan area. The major junction of the South Western and Albany Highways, which connect Perth with the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia respectively, is located within the...
and Byford
Byford, Western Australia
Byford is a suburb on the southeastern edge of Perth, Australia, originally founded as the townsite of Beenup in 1906.Beenup took its name from the railway siding there, a corruption of the Aboriginal name of nearby Beenyup Brook...
and under the administration of the City of Armadale
City of Armadale
The City of Armadale is a Local Government Area in the south-eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about southeast of Perth's central business district...
.
The name derives from that of a government townsite on the Perth-Bunbury [railway] line, proclaimed on 12 March 1909 and named after the nearby Wungong Brook. The course of this brook was first traced by Alfred Hillman in January 1835.
A farm established in the nineteenth-century was named Wongong,, as were the brook itself and a church mission, indicating extensive use of the earlier variant spelling.
A wildlife sanctuary named 'The Armadale Reptile Park' was opened in Wungong in 1995 by the Gaikhorst family and has the largest public reptile and amphibian display in Western Australia along with dingoes,flying foxes,farm animals marsupials and birds.