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Donnybrook
Western Australiatown
Donnybrook
Total population
2,786
Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Donnybrook is a town situated between Boyanup and Kirup on the South Western Highway, 210 kilometres (130 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia. The town is the centre of apple cultivation in Western Australia. The town is also known for its picturesque abundance of English oak trees, as well as for the Apple Fun Park, a large outdoor playground in the centre of town.
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History
Donnybrook is on the traditional lands of the Noongar people. George Nash and other Europeans arrived here around 1842. In 1897, Richard Hunter discovered gold about south of the Donnybrook townsite. Hunter eventually sold out to Fred Camilleri (a well known prospector from Kalgoorlie) and Camilleri was able to interest the internationally renowned Polish geologist Modest Maryanski. It was on the basis of Maryanski's report that a new company, Donnybrook Goldfields, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1899. A mini-gold-rush occurred, resulting in the government gazetting the Donnybrook Goldfieldin the process making provision for a new town to be called Goldtown. From the census of 1901, it was known over 200 gold miners were camped on the goldfields. The excitement was short-lived however, and the Hunters Venture mine closed in August 1903. The area was worked during the Great Depression by locals Laurie and Foster Payne, then re-pegged and explored during the 1980s and again from 2004 to 2005.
Geography
Donnybrook experiences a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). Although summers are usually dry, heavy downpours in the summer are not uncommon. Donnybrook gets 93.9 clear days annually.
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Nearby places in Western Australia
- Kirup9.7 mi away · pop. 219
- Mullalyup13.4 mi away · pop. 152
- Tutunup16.4 mi away
- Jarrahwood17.7 mi away · pop. 20
- Lyalls19.9 mi away
- Hithergreen20.9 mi away · pop. 61
- Brunswick Junction22.2 mi away · pop. 807
- Greenbushes23.1 mi away · pop. 361
- McAlinden28.9 mi away
- Yarloop43.2 mi away · pop. 357
- Palgarup45.4 mi away · pop. 150
- Yallingup46.2 mi away · pop. 1,029
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library