Everything about Wongan Hills Western Australia totally explained
Wongan Hills is a town in the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu, in the
Wheatbelt region of
Western Australia. It is located at . It is approximately 182 km north of the State capital
Perth, and is at an altitude of 286 metres.
The town is named for a nearby range of hills, also named
Wongan Hills, which was first recorded in 1836 by
Surveyor General of Western Australia John Septimus Roe. The area was settled by the 1900s, and in 1911 the town was gazetted and named after the range. "Wongan" is derived from the
Indigenous Australian name "wangan-katta", "wankan" and "woongan". "Katta" is known to mean "hill", but the meaning of "wongan" is uncertain. It may be related to "
kwongan", an indigenous word for sandplain, or "whispering", in which case "wongan katta" would mean "whispering hills" (katta is a word for hill).
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