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The townsite of Wonnerup is located 219 kilometres south of Perth and 10 kilometres east of Busselton. It was gazetted a townsite in 1856, 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.The Ballaarat Tramline, Western Australia's first railway and railway bridg...
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    The Vasse-Wonnerup Estuary is an estuary in the South West region of Western Australia close to the town of Busselton. The estuary is listed with DIWA. It was also recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on 7 June 1990 when an area of 1115 ha was designated Ramsar Site 484 as an important dry-season habitat for waterbirds. It is also the main part of the 2038 ha Busselton Wetlands Important Bird Area.
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