Kwolyin, Western Australia
Encyclopedia
Kwolyin is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia
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The first European to visit the area, in 1864, was the explorer Charles Cooke Hunt
, who charted a large granite
hill in the area by its Indigenous Australian name of Qualyin Hill. The meaning of the name is unknown.
By 1908 the area had been settled and the local progress association requested that the government declare a townsite
along the Quairading
to Nunagin railway that was being proposed.
The townsite was selected in 1912 due to its position near Coaring Spring and the townsite was gazetted in 1913, the same year the railway was opened. The station was initially named as Koarin but later renamed as Kwolyin.
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 first European to visit the area, in 1864, was the explorer Charles Cooke Hunt
Charles Cooke Hunt
Charles Cooke Hunt was an explorer who led four expeditions into the interior of Western Australia between 1864 and 1866. He died in Geraldton....
, who charted a large granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
hill in the area by its Indigenous Australian name of Qualyin Hill. The meaning of the name is unknown.
By 1908 the area had been settled and the local progress association requested that the government declare a townsite
Townsite
A townsite is a legal subdivision of land for the development of a town or community. In the historical development of the United States, Canada, and other former British colonial nations, the filing of a townsite plat or plan was often the first legal act in the establishment of a new town or...
along the Quairading
Quairading, Western Australia
Quairading is a Western Australian town located in the Wheatbelt region. It is the seat of government for the Shire of Quairading.-History:The town was named for Quairading Spring, derived from a local Aboriginal word recorded in 1872 by surveyor Alexander Forrest. The first European settler in the...
to Nunagin railway that was being proposed.
The townsite was selected in 1912 due to its position near Coaring Spring and the townsite was gazetted in 1913, the same year the railway was opened. The station was initially named as Koarin but later renamed as Kwolyin.